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· 9/8/1981

United States v. Herman Edward Tinkle, Jerry Nelson and Charles Richard Garrett

Citations

  • 655 F.2d 617
  • 1981 U.S. App. LEXIS 17937

How courts have described this case

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

  • “The critical time is the moment of arrest, not the moment the officer makes the decision to arrest.”
  • “The currency of probable cause is probability, not legal certainty; it may exist even though the evidence before the officer is insufficient to convict.”
  • “The critical time is the moment of arrest, not the moment the officer makes the decision to arrest”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Ingraham, Politz, Williams

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