Joyce v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that probable cause existed to arrest for trespassing under state law
• upholding a search where officers lacked reasonable suspicion for a weapons frisk but had probable cause to arrest for trespass
• affirming a conviction where a VCIN report provided evidence of the defendant’s prior convictions based on aliases involving names, birth dates, and social security numbers listed in the report, as well as fingerprint comparisons
• implicitly permitting the inference that the abbreviation “DOO” preceding a date in a sentencing order, which was admitted to prove a prior conviction, stood for “date of offense”
• “The power to arrest is invariably coupled with the power to search incident to arrest.”
• “The substance of all the definitions of probable cause is a reasonable ground for belief of guilt. And this means less than evidence which would justify condemnation or conviction.” (quoting Brinegar v. United States, 338 U.S. 160, 175 (1949))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).