United States v. Laughman

How courts have described this case

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

• acknowledging that another officer’s basis for probable cause does not affect the analysis if the arresting officer has probable cause
• noting the “inference” that a car’s driver knows what contraband it contains
• “The law seems to be clear that so long as the officer who orders an arrest or search has knowledge of facts establishing probable cause, it is not necessary for the officers actually making the arrest or conducting the search to be personally aware of those facts.”
• “The law seems to be clear that so long as the officer who orders an arrest or search has knowledge of facts establishing probable cause, it is not necessary for the officers actually making the arrest or conducting the search to be personally aware of those facts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).