The trooper two-step (Kansas Two Step) happens after a traffic stop:
First, the officer gives you your license and insurance back and says “you're free to leave.”
Then, the officer takes two steps to the rear of the car.
Then, the officer turns around and comes back to your window and says:
"Hey, by the way. You know we've got a lot of problems here with guns, drugs. You don't have any rocket launchers or drugs in the car, do you? You don't mind if we search?"
(Trooper two-step is also known as "the Kansas Two Step")
Let’s pause right here in the traffic stop procedure. Since, the officers gave back your license and told you that “you're free to leave”, a line has been crossed.
This is no longer a traffic stop, because they told you “you're free to leave.”
Now, this is a voluntary encounter.
Before they gave you your license back, they needed to have some kind of reasonable suspicion – or evidence to believe you've committed a crime to ask you to search your car.
Now, since this is a “voluntary encounter,” they don't need any reasonable suspicion, now they don't need probable cause.
Watch the full video on Traffic stops here
https://riveralawoffice.com/traffic-stops/
