UNITED STATES v. CUPPS

No. 74-1127.

503 F.2d 277 (1974)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Hoyt CUPPS, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided September 24, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Combs & Combs, Pikeville, Ky., for defendant-appellant; Dan Jack Combs, Jack Emory Farley, Pikeville, Ky., on brief.

Eugene E. Siler, Jr., U. S. Atty., John M. Compton, Asst. U. S. Atty., Lexington, Ky., Kenneth P. Glover, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, Cincinnati, Ohio, on brief, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before PECK, McCREE and ENGEL, Circuit Judges.


McCREE, Circuit Judge.

This appeal requires us to decide whether a police officer, who has stopped a motorist on the highway to make a statutory inspection of his operator's license, may order the motorist to leave his vehicle after a valid license has been produced, in the absence of probable cause to believe that the motorist has committed an offense. We determine that he may not, agreeably with the Fourth Amendment, and therefore do not find it necessary to reach...

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