Philadelphia Criminal Lawyer Update: Nervousness of Driver of Car During Late Night Traffic Stop for Tinted Window Violation Insufficient to Justify Police Protective Weapons Search

by | Mar 2, 2013 | Criminal, Lawyer, Protective, Reasonable, Search, Stop, Suspicion, Terry, Uncategorized, Weapons

In Commonwealth v. Cartegena, — A.3d —-, 2013 WL 239082 (Pa. Super. 2013) (en banc), the Pennsylvania Superior Court has recently held that the nervousness of a driver during a traffic stop does not, in itself, justify a protective search of a car for...