Back and Forth on Visual Estimates of Speed
Jeff Welty
Can an officer’s visual estimate of a vehicle’s speed, uncorroborated by radar, pacing, or other techniques, support a speeding stop? The Fourth Circuit has been whipsawing back and forth on […]
July 11, 2012
Visual Estimates of Speed and “Slight Speeding”
Jeff Welty
The Fourth Circuit recently decided United States v. Sowards, an interesting case about a traffic stop. The case arose when an experienced traffic enforcement officer stopped the defendant on I-77 […]
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