California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Hanley, 156 Cal.App.2d 544, 319 P.2d 706 (Cal. App. 1958):
Summed up, reasonable cause means such a state of facts as would lead a man of ordinary caution to believe, and conscientiously entertain a strong suspicion, that a person is guilty of a crime. People v. Brite, 9 Cal.2d 666, 687, 72 P.2d 122.
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