Supreme Court of the United States

Kansas v. Charles Glover

April 6, 2020140 S. Ct. 1183

Summary

The Court held that a police officer may constitutionally stop a vehicle when the officer knows the registered owner’s license is revoked and reasonably infers the owner is the driver, even absent additional specific facts. The majority rejected the Kansas courts’ view that such an inference is merely a hunch and reversed their decisions, while noting a dissent that would find the stop unconstitutional.