The following excerpt is from United States v. Martinez, CASE NO. 13CR3560-WQH (S.D. Cal. 2014):
502 F.3d at 1135. "Probable cause exists when, under the totality of the circumstances known to the arresting officers, a prudent person would have concluded that there was a fair probability that [the defendant] had committed a crime." United States v. Garza, 980 F.2d 546, 550 (9th Cir.1992) (alteration in original) (citation and quotation marks omitted). "Probable cause means only a 'fair probability,' not certainty, and requires
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