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· 4/27/2004

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, — v. MELVIN LUIS VELAZQUEZ-RIVERA, —

Citations

  • 366 F.3d 661
  • 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 8228
  • 2004 WL 884813

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that testimony explaining how the police came to be surveilling a particular location based on an informant’s tip was not hearsay
  • explaining that probable cause was supported by informant’s tips that the police corroborated and by the defendant’s attempts to evade the police by “evasive driving” and disguising himself
  • upholding strike where the juror was struck, in part, because she was a nurse
  • efforts at flight and evasion combined with corroborated informant’s tip established probable cause

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Judges: Wollman, Gibson, Riley

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