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· 1/7/1982

United States v. Dennis Harry Flynn and James Anthony McDonnell

Citations

  • 664 F.2d 1296
  • 1982 U.S. App. LEXIS 22803

How courts have described this case

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

  • declining to consider whether airplanes should be given the same constitutional treatment as cars because probable cause existed
  • declining to consider whether airplanes should be given the same constitutional treatment as cars because probable cause existed
  • finding of probable cause rests on sum total of layers of information
  • \(W)e find Abram's (the government official's) statements fully complied with the first prong of Aguilar by setting forth in detail the facts that led him to suspect criminal activity.\
  • “[W]e find Abram’s [the government official’s] statements fully complied with the first prong of Aguilar by setting forth in detail the facts that led him to suspect criminal activity.”
  • “in judging the sufficiency of an affidavit to determine whether probable cause exists, we assess not the individual facts but ‘the sum total of layers of information and the synthesis of what the police have heard, what they know, and what they observe as trained officers’ ”

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Judges: Kravitch, Henderson, Reavley

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