United States v. Aaron Williams

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that it's not relevant whether a directing officer learns information firsthand or from other officers involved in the same investigation, so long as that information amounts to probable cause and leads to a sufficient directive to the arresting officer
• stating DEA’s knowledge of facts supporting probable cause imputed to a local law enforcement officer
• describing collective knowledge doctrine as only encompassing situations involving vertical collective knowledge
• describing collective knowledge doctrine as only encompassing situations involving vertical collective knowledge
• “[T]he knowledge of other officers may be imputed to the requesting officer, so long as the officers are in close communication with one another.”
• Constitution permits officers to stop a person based on “wanted” bulletins issued by other law enforcement agencies even if officer making stop lacks personal knowledge of basis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).