United States v. Gerald Lester, A/K/A Jerry Stretches

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the “the validity of the arrest should be judged by whether the arresting officers actually had probable cause for the arrest, rather than by whether the officers gave the arrested person the right reason for the arrest”
• validity of arrest judged by whether probable cause existed, not whether arresting officers gave arrestee right reason for arrest
• even if arrest for detoxification was unlawful, probable cause existed to arrest defendant for assault
• “The validity of the subsequent search . . . does not turn upon the suitability of the stated grounds for the arrest.”
• validity of arrest does not turn on the suitability of the stated grounds for arrest but instead on whether the officers had probable cause to believe that an offense had been or was being committed
• “the validity of the arrest should be judged by whether the arresting officers actually had probable cause for the arrest, rather than by whether the officers gave the arrested person the right reason for the arrest”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).