CAPLINGER, J.
The State appeals from the district court's order suppressing evidence discovered in the search of the defendants' vehicle following a traffic stop. Because we agree that the scope of the stop was unlawfully extended, and the subsequent consent to search was not sufficiently attenuated from the prior unlawful detention to purge the taint of the illegality, we affirm the suppression.
I. Factual and procedural background
The district...
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