heien – North Carolina Criminal Law

September 27, 2016

An Officer’s Reasonable Mistake of Law and Recent Court of Appeals Ruling

The United States Supreme Court in 2014 ruled in Heien v. North Carolina, 135 S. Ct. 530 (affirming State v. Heien, 366 N.C. 271 (2012)), that an officer’s objectively reasonable […]

December 16, 2014

United States Supreme Court Rules that Reasonable Suspicion May Be Based on Reasonable Mistakes of Law

Jeffrey Welty

Shea blogged here about State v. Heien, the case in which the court of appeals ruled that having one burned-out brake light was not a violation of G.S. 20-129 and […]

October 6, 2011

Is a Burned Out Brake Light a Basis for a Stop?

Shea Denning

We’ll start with a pop quiz: A police officer sees that the right brake light of a vehicle fails to illuminate when the driver applies brakes while driving down a […]

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An Officer’s Reasonable Mistake of Law and Recent Court of Appeals Ruling

United States Supreme Court Rules that Reasonable Suspicion May Be Based on Reasonable Mistakes of Law

Is a Burned Out Brake Light a Basis for a Stop?

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