What is the test for probable cause in criminal cases?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Ganek v. Leibowitz, No. 16-1463-cv (2nd Cir. 2017):

when, as here, a person's conduct satisfies the actus reus of a crime, we have moved well beyond mere suspicion. See Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. at 231 (observing that probable cause does not demand "hard certainties," but only "probabilities," determined by looking to "the factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act" (internal quotation marks omitted)); Florida v. Harris, 568 U.S. 237, 244 (2013) (observing that probable cause is "practical," "common-sensical," "all-things-considered" standard).

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