Anonymous Tips and DUI Traffic Stops

Can you be arrested for DUI based on an anonymous tip to the police? In a 2014 case, Navarette v. California, 572 U.S. _ (2014), the Supreme Court of the United States said that you can. Depending on the circumstances, an anonymous tip can provide law enforcement with the reasonable suspicion needed to justify a brief investigatory traffic stop. The Navarette case involved an anonymous phone call to the police stating that the caller had been run off the highway at a specific mile marker by a silver Ford F-150 pickup truck. The police soon spotted a vehicle matching that description...

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