Johnson & East v. Davies

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 jury is allowed to believe the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice
• “An anonymous tip does not, of itself, satisfy probable cause requirements, but it is information that may be considered if corroborated.” (citation omitted)
• “Probable cause issues are to be decided on an objective basis by courts without regard to the subjective beliefs of law enforcement officers, whatever those beliefs may have been,”
• “[E]ven though a police officer believed that probable cause was lacking, the Court still had the duty to objectively determine if probable cause was present.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[U]nless it is incredible or contradicts known facts to such an extent no reasonable officer would believe it, a co- defendant’s confession that he and the suspect committed the crime can supply probable cause to arrest the suspect.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).