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Michael Antonio Bullock v. North Carolina

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of North Carolina, No. COA15-731-2 · judgment February 20, 2018

Certiorari denied · February 25, 2019

Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Under Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), a police officer may not prolong a traffic stop beyond the time required to complete the mission of the stop to engage in unrelated investigations. Do any activities unrelated to the mission of the stop inherently prolong it, and what activities fall within the mission of a stop?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Sarah M. Shalf
Emory University School of Law

For respondent
Derrick Charles Mertz
North Carolina Department of Justice

Case

Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
18A477

Order
Order list, February 25, 2019 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

Feb 25 2019
Petition DENIED.
Feb 06 2019
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/22/2019.
Jan 31 2019
Waiver of right of respondent North Carolina to respond filed.
Jan 11 2019
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 15, 2019)
Nov 05 2018
Application (18A477) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until January 11, 2019.
Nov 01 2018
Application (18A477) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 12, 2018 to January 11, 2019, submitted to The Chief Justice.
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