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· 1/19/2010

United States v. Palos-Marquez

Citations

  • 591 F.3d 1272
  • 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 1112
  • 2010 WL 157476

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the \in person nature of a tip gives it substantial indicia of reliability\
  • suggesting that what is important is not just whether an informant reveals his/her basis of knowledge, but also whether or not that basis of knowledge is firsthand
  • suggesting that what is important is not just whether an informant reveals his/her basis of knowledge, but also whether or not that basis of knowledge is firsthand
  • explaining that an isolated fact's inability to establish reasonable suspicion is not dispositive, as courts consider the cumulative effect of all relevant facts
  • rejecting defendant’s “at- tempt to discredit individually each of the facts used by agents to determine if there was reasonable suspicion to initiate the UNITED STATES v. VALDES-VEGA 8461 stop”
  • “An investigatory stop does not violate the Fourth Amendment if the officer has a reasonable suspicion supported by articulable facts that criminal activity may be afoot.” (citations and quotations omitted)

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Judges: Schroeder, Berzon, Ikuta

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