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A law enforcement officer is not required to have any probable cause or level of suspicion to make an inquiry on the status of a vehicle's registration. When officers have computer terminals mounted in the patrol cars, they will often run all of the license plates they see while stopped at an intersection, just in case any of them are on the wrong vehicles or are stolen.

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