United States v. Cordell G. Sawyer

How courts have described this case

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• noting that probable cause does not even require evidence that it is more likely than not that the suspect committed a crime
• explaining that there must be a “probability or substantial chance of criminal activity on the suspect’s part”
• when officers are in communication regarding a suspect, the knowledge of one officer can be imputed to the other officers under the collective knowledge doctrine
• probable cause exists where the totality of the circumstances “reveals a probability or substantial chance of criminal activity on the suspect’s part”
• “When law enforcement officers are in communication regarding a suspect, the knowledge of one officer can be imputed to the other officers under the collective knowledge doctrine.”
• “Probable cause…does not require evidence sufficient to support a conviction or even evidence demonstrating that it is more likely than not that the suspect committed the crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).