Commonwealth v. Hecox

How courts have described this case

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

• “just as the police may permissibly act upon their collective knowledge, so they are restrained by their collective ignorance.”
• good-faith exception to exclusionary rule may apply where police arrest suspect on erroneous information not of their making
• \[T]he police may not rely upon . . . incomplete information when they are at fault in . . . not informing themselves\ [quotation and citation omitted]
• where officer mistakenly believed that a warrant was outstanding for defendant’s arrest, but in fact a warrant either never had issued or had been subsequently cleared, arrest pursuant to that warrant violated Fourth Amendment
• reversing defendant’s conviction of trafficking in cocaine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).