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· 7/10/1975

United States v. Paul Garcia, Jr., T/n, Jose Martinez-Lopez

Citations

  • 516 F.2d 318

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 discarded evidence was not tainted by the earlier unlawful stop
  • holding that the discarded evidence was not tainted by the earlier unlawful stop
  • finding no taint to evidence discovered after the defendant fled an illegal stop at an immigration checkpoint in his car and was subsequently stopped after a high-speed chase
  • “By ordering [the defendant] to stop, the officer could hardly have intended him to flee.”
  • unlawful stop did not taint arrest and subsequent search where defendant fled in vehicle and led officers on high-speed chase, among other conduct
  • high speed chase and shooting at officer attempting an illegal arrest

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Judges: Trask, Wallace, Peckham

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