Holman v. CITY OF YORK, PA.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “the defense of necessity need not have been considered in the assessment of probable cause for arrest for trespass at the scene” (emphasis added)
• “We do not endorse the [district [e]ourt’s statement that affirmative defenses are ‘not a relevant consideration’—as we have never so held—but we do conclude that, here, the defense ... need not have been considered----”
• probable-cause standard does not require officer to resolve “daunting issues”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).