Jeffrey William Forget v. United States
FourthAmendment DueProcess CriminalProcedure Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Whether the traffic stop was unlawfully extended
QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that the traffic stop of Petitioner was not unlawfully extended in violation of the Fourth Amendment, where officers were engaged in drug interdiction surveillance and held a vehicle subject to a traffic stop in order to order a k-9 unit prior to investigating the passenger seat belt violation which was the cause of the traffic stop. 2. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by holding that the warrantless search of Petitioner’s items was permissible under the inventory search exception of the Fourth Amendment, where Petitioner was a passenger in a vehicle, no inventory of the items was created while the warrantless searches were being conducted, and where officers chose which searched items would be placed into police custody as evidence.