Commonwealth v. Santaliz

How courts have described this case

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

• finding probable cause existed when an experienced narcotics investigator observed an exchange of an object for money outside of a taxicab in a place of high incidence of drug traffic
• finding probable cause for arrest based on observations and experience of police officer who saw exchange of small object from waistband for money, furtive actions of participants, in high crime area
• suspect in high-crime area engaged in furtive, transaction-like conduct with another; sufficient probable cause for experienced officer to arrest for drug sale
• court evaluates “the whole ‘silent movie’ disclosed to the eyes of an experienced narcotics investigator” when determining existence of probable cause
• \the unusual nature of the transaction . . . [and] the furtive actions of the participants\ indicate that defendant was committing crime
• “The defendant handed the object to the woman, and she gave him money”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).