Donald Tangwall v. Thomas Stuckey

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• recognizing that “the law is clear that a believable victim's single identification can provide the basis for probable cause”
• holding that an officer had probable cause to arrest a suspect based on a victim’s in-person identification, despite the fact that the suspect’s physical appearance did not match a description that the victim had previously provided
• “Because the law is clear that a believable victim’s single identification can provide the basis for probable cause, a reasonable officer would thus have believed that Tangwall’s arrest was constitutionally valid at that point in time.”
• “The identification itself establishes probable cause to make an arrest, even where other witnesses’ descriptions of the alleged perpetrator differ from the physical appearance of the individual so identified.”
• where arresting officer does not personally know the facts, an arrest is proper if the knowledge of the officer directing the arrest, or the collective knowledge of police, is sufficient to constitute probable cause
• “The question is whether “it seems reasonable [for] the police to believe that [the putative victim or] eyewitness was telling the truth,” Decoteau, 932 F.2d at 1207 (emphasis added

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).