Howes v. Hitchcock

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• concluding that threat of destruction of evidence at teenage drinking party and claim of imminent harm to life or limb were sufficient to support a finding that officers had qualified immunity in civil suit brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (2012)
• unsupervised teenage drinking party created “dangers of alcohol poisoning, accidents, and violence associated with such gatherings, as well as the risk to public safety posed by the possibility of the partygoers getting into their cars”
• \Probable cause exists when 'the officers at the scene collectively possess[ ] \reasonably trustworthy information [sufficient] to warrant a prudent [person] in believing that [the suspects] [have] committed or [are] committing a [criminal] offense.\'\

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