Keylon v. City of Albuquerque

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the court’s determination of whether an officer had probable cause for an arrest is “an independent and objective” determination, and “an officer’s own subjective reason for the arrest is irrelevant.”
• denying an officer qualified immunity because the arrest was clearly outside the scope of the New Mexico statute relied upon by the officer
• warrantless arrest for the offense of concealing identity will not satisfy the Fourth Amendment unless supported by reasonable suspicion suspect committed a predicate offense
• “[T]o arrest for concealing identity, there must be reasonable suspicion of some predicate, underlying crime.”
• “A warrantless arrest violates the Fourth Amendment unless it was supported by probable cause.”
• “A warrantless arrest violates the Fourth Amendment unless it was supported by probable cause.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).