Sroga v. Weiglen

How courts have described this case

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• noting that probable cause does not require an officer to “act as a judge or jury to determine whether a person’s conduct satisfies all of the essential elements of a particular statute”
• probable cause existed for trespassing arrest when defendant was stopped near sign reading “Police Parking Only and Police Personnel Only”
• probable cause existed for trespassing arrest when defendant was stopped near sign reading “Police Parking Only and Police Personnel Only”
• “And ‘to form a belief of probable cause, an arresting officer is not required ... to act as a judge or jury to determine whether a person’s conduct satisfies all of the essential elements of a particular statute.’ ” (citation omitted)
• “Although merely arguing with a police officer does not violate the statute, [plaintiff] both times went beyond argument by refusing to desist from behavior that was obstructing the efforts of the police to enable his car to be towed.” (internal citations omitted)
• “The existence of probable cause to arrest a suspect for any offense, even one that was not identified by the officers on the scene or in the charging documents, will defeat a Fourth Amendment false-arrest claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).