Commonwealth v. Ceria

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “police conduct is to be judged ‘under a standard of objective reasonableness without regard to the underlying intent or motivation of the officers involved’ ”
• reasonable belief that moped was stolen sufficient to establish probable cause to arrest, even though belief was mistaken
• “The legitimacy of an arrest for one offense ordinarily will not depend on whether the officer subjectively believed that the arrest might lead to incriminating information regarding another offense”
• Terry-type analysis of stop of man riding moped in park by officers on foot

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).