Fagan, Jr. v. Dist. Ct. (Aal-Jay, Inc.)

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• where motor vehicle records were not under police control, probable cause was not negated when information about a driver's license later proved inaccurate
• “The interest in deterring unlawful police conduct ... is the foundation of the exclusionary rule”
• “When the matter is grounded in police fault, then policy reasons for applying the exclusionary rule become more relevant”
• probable cause to arrest not vitiated by fact that police were relying on erroneous information obtained from Registry of Motor Vehicles records that defendant's license had been revoked
• erroneous information from registry of motor vehicles provided probable cause for defendant's arrest
• “Probable cause to arrest is not vitiated when the basis on which the police officer acted is shown after the fact to have been erroneous, because the existence of probable cause is determined at the moment of arrest, not in light of subsequent events”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).