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First Circuit· 11/10/1992

Emma Rivera v. Paul Murphy

Citations

  • 979 F.2d 259
  • 1992 U.S. App. LEXIS 29783
  • 1992 WL 322360

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that conclusions drawn from the experience and training of a police officer must be \sufficiently conveyed\ so as to be understood by the average reasonably prudent person before they can support probable cause
  • noting that conclusions drawn from the experience and training of a police officer must be \sufficiently conveyed\ so as to be understood by the average reasonably prudent person before they can support probable cause
  • denying qualified immunity where arresting officer provided \no facts to support his legal conclusion that he had probable cause\
  • noting that officer’s training and experience are factors to consider in determining probable cause, but observing that the “relevance [of such experience and training] in a particular case must be sufficiently conveyed so that ... it can be understood by the average reasonably prudent person”
  • “The experience and training of a police officer are, of course, factors to be considered in the determination of probable cause . . .”
  • a police officer sued for conducting warrantless seizure “is entitled to qualified immunity if a reasonable officer could have believed that probable cause existed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Breyer, Bownes, Boudin

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