What is the test for probable cause to arrest a man for being under the influence of methamphetamine?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Simi, H035783 (Cal. App. 2011):

depends on the totality of the circumstances." (Maryland v. Pringle, supra, 540 U.S. 366, 371.) Even if not every symptom described by the officer was consistent only with the use of methamphetamine, their combination tended to narrow the range of alternative explanations. Defendant offers no innocent explanation for his admitted recent use of methamphetamine or for how he came to be sleeping in a running vehicle parked in the middle of a residential street unknown to him blocking a driveway. Coupling those circumstances with the officer's trained observations of symptoms of methamphetamine use, we conclude that the officer had probable cause to arrest defendant for being under the influence of methamphetamine.

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