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Federal judge rules against highway patrol’s ‘Kansas Two-Step’
A Kansas Highway Patrol vehicle sits in a field. (Credit: Kansas Highway Patrol)
U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil ruled Friday that the Kansas Highway Patrol’s “two-step” maneuver violates the Constitution. The “two-step” is a tactic used by troopers with KHP in which they take a few steps away at the end of a traffic stop before turning around and attempting to gain the driver’s consent to search the ...