Sharrar v. Felsing

How courts have described this case

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• providing that “[w]hen an officer has received his information from some person . . . who it seems reasonable to believe is telling the truth, he has probable cause”
• providing that “[w]hen an officer has received his information from some person . . . who it seems reasonable to believe is telling the truth, he has probable cause” (quoting Grimm v. Churchill, 932 F.2d 674, 675 (7th Cir. 1991))
• finding Payton violation where \SWAT team surrounds a residence with machine guns pointed at the windows and then persons inside are ordered to leave the house backwards with their hands raised\
• abrogated on other grounds by Curley v. Klem, 499 F.3d 199, 208-211 (3d Cir. 2007)
• the fact that the physical force applied was of such an extent to lead to injury is indeed a relevant factor to be considered as part of the totality of the circumstances
• “when a SWAT team surrounds a residence with machine guns pointed at the windows and the persons inside are ordered to leave the house backwards with their hands raised, an arrest has undoubtedly occurred”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).