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Minnesota law, in your pocket.
Minnesota criminal and traffic statutes, the Minnesota decisions that interpret them, and field guides that walk the call — built from published state sources, on your phone with no signal needed. Covers Title 609 and Title 169.
STATUTE DETAIL IN THE APP
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The rules that are Minnesota’s own.
Federal cases set the minimum. Minnesota’s courts have their own answers — and those are the ones that control your stop, your search, your report.
State v. Gauster
No lawful impound, no lawful inventory. A suspended license and no proof of insurance do not authorize a tow in Minnesota. If you are writing a citation rather than making an arrest, and the driver is standing there asking to have a friend drive it or to call his own tow, you have to let him — and everything the inventory turns up after an impound you did not need gets suppressed.
752 N.W.2d 496 (Minn. 2008)READ THE OPINION →
State v. Smith
Minnesota makes you justify each step past what you stopped the car for. Ordinary nervousness will not carry an expansion — but shaking ‘very violently’ before any pressure was applied, plus an evasive explanation for it, did.
814 N.W.2d 346 (Minn. 2012)READ THE OPINION →
State v. Diede
Being with a drug suspect is not suspicion of you. And once someone says no, asking again in front of four officers and a police dog does not turn it into a yes.
795 N.W.2d 836 (Minn. 2011)READ THE OPINION →
FIELD GUIDES — STEP-BY-STEP FLOWCHARTS
The call, one decision at a time.
DV, juveniles, hospital holds, use of force, traffic — each guide walks the fork in the road with the Minnesota law and procedure built in, the way an FTO would talk you through it.
Minnesota paper plates, decoded.
Run it
CAN be run. Returns owner, vehicle, and expiration.
21 or 31 days
21 days for MN residents, 31 for non-residents.
Resident or non-resident?
21 days for MN residents, 31 days for non-residents. Check expiration against this.
The temp-tag scanner is free for verified law enforcement — with or without a subscription. SEE HOW THE SCANNER WORKS →
Federal cases that reach every Minnesota stop.
Pennsylvania v. Mimms (1977)
Ordering the driver out on a lawful stop — what it covers, and what it doesn’t.
Arizona v. Gant (2009)
Once the arrestee is secured, the automatic car search is gone. The two narrow windows that remain.
Riley v. California (2014)
Seizing the phone is one question. Searching its data is another.
Cross the line, keep the reference.
Task force, bi-state agency, or a beat near the border — every state gets the same breakdown, and the FEDERAL KIT travels with you.
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