Traffic Stop Was Not Unreasonably Prolonged

United States v. Morales, 2020 WL 3041600 (10th Cir. June 8, 2020) (N.D. OK): The panel holds that an officer did not unreasonably prolong a valid stop by gathering information about the driver and passenger during a 15 minute phone call with the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC), a national law enforcement database. Quoting United States v. Mayville, 955 F.3d 825, 827 (10th Cir. 2020), the panel said that the “touchstone of the Fourth Amendment is reasonableness rather than efficiency.”