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· 4/6/2015

United States v. Marco Alvarado-Zarza

Citations

  • 782 F.3d 246
  • 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 5499
  • 2015 WL 1529102

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that an officer’s mistake of law was not objectively reasonable because, in part, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals had rejected the officer’s interpretation
  • concluding that the officer’s mistaken interpretation of a similar Texas turn signal provision was not a reasonable mistake of law in part because (1
  • holding that an officer’s mistaken reading of an unambiguous statute was not objectively reasonable
  • holding that an officer’s mistaken reading of an unambiguous statute was not objectively reasonable
  • recognizing that mistake of law does not apply to unambiguous statutes
  • noting that reasonable suspicion can rely upon a mistake of fact if it is “objectively reasonable”

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Judges: Barksdale, Higginson, Southwick

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