Justice FREEMAN delivered the opinion of the court:
At issue in this case is whether a police officer, having obtained an identification card from a passenger in a vehicle during a traffic stop, may perform a check to determine whether there are outstanding warrants for the passenger's arrest. We hold that, under the circumstances at bar, the warrant check was outside the scope of the traffic stop and was impermissible.
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