Is probable cause to arrest "sketchy"?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from The People v. Stokes, No. 2009030213, No. B223137 (Cal. App. 2010):
Appellant claims that the arrest was unlawful because the trial court characterized the probable cause to arrest as "sketchy." Probable cause "is a fluid concept-turning on the assessment of probabilities in particular factual contexts-not readily, or even usefully, reduced to a neat set of legal rules." (Illinois v. Gates (1983) 462 U.S. 213, 232 [76 L.Ed.2d 527, 544].)
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