Legal Question in Criminal Law in Wisconsin

Your lawyer could always bring a motion to suppress evidence due to lack of probably cause for the stop. While window tint stops are very common, they are also highly suspect for everyone in the world except court systems, since there is little or no guidance in the law other than the officer's personal judgment that he had trouble seeing through them, which claim usually holds up. I have had many clients complain that even unmodified factory tints subjected them to stops, but, regrettably, the law specifically allows even pretextual stops to serve as a legal basis for sustaining objections filed against contraband located afterwards. Nonetheless, it is still worth bringing the motions, especially if you are planning to have a trial, just to develop a transcript of the officer's testimony for purposes of cross examination later. Your having to wait a reasonable time (such as 20 minutes) for the K-9 unit, as well as snarky, gratuitous comments by the officer, probably will get you nowhere, especially when they turn out to ultimately be justified by a successful search.

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