United States v. Albert Lee Hawkins

How courts have described this case

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• acknowledging that “the authority of an individual officer” is not “circumscribed by the scope of his first[-]hand knowledge of facts concerning a crime or alleged crime” (quoting Williams v. United States, 308 F.2d 326, 327 (D.C. Cir. 1962))
• acknowledging that \the authority of an individual officer\ is not \circumscribed by the scope of his first[-]hand knowledge of facts concerning a crime or alleged crime\ (quoting Williams v. United States , 308 F.2d 326 , 327 (D.C. Cir. 1962) )
• prosecutor’s improper statements during closing argument harmless because they “did not substantially sway the verdict”
• “Probable cause may emanate from the collective knowledge of the police, though the officer who performs the act of arresting or searching may be far less informed.”
• “[P]robable cause may emanate from the collective knowledge of the police, though the officer who performs the act of arresting or searching may be far less 15 informed.”
• inventory search of locked automobile trunk held unreasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).