Terxidor
United States v. Terxidor
Opinion
Opinion
facts by resident judges and local law enforcement officers.” United States v.
Valdes-Vega, 738 F.3d 1074, 1077 (9th Cir. 2013) (en banc) (internal citation and
23-652 quotation marks omitted). In determining whether an officer had reasonable
suspicion to stop a vehicle, courts “must look at the totality of the circumstances of
each case” to see whether the detaining officer had a “particularized and objective
basis for suspecting legal wrongdoing.” United States v. Arvizu, 534 U.S. 266, 273
(2002) (internal citations and quotations omitted). But “[t]o be reasonable is not to
be perfect, and so the Fourth Amendment allows for some mistakes on the part of
government officials . . . .” Heien v. North Carolina, 574 U.S. 54, 60–61 (2014).
“An officer might, for example, stop a motorist for traveling alone in a high-
occupancy vehicle lane, only to discover upon approaching the car that two children
are slumped over asleep in the back seat. The driver has not violated the law, but
neither has the officer violated the Fourth Amendment.” Id. at 57. “[O]bjectively
reasonable” mistakes of fact will not invalidate an otherwise lawful…