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· 4/30/2001

United States v. Ralph G. Mounts

Citations

  • 248 F.3d 712
  • 2001 U.S. App. LEXIS 7906
  • 2001 WL 460624

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding officers are entitled to rely on reasonable information relayed from police dispatcher and it is immaterial that dispatcher’s information is later determined to be faulty or inadequate
  • officers had probable cause to arrest after observing plaintiff driving and police dispatch advised his officers plaintiff’s license was revoked
  • “[P]olice officers are entitled to rely on the reasonable information relayed to them from a police dispatcher” and whether the officers were given inaccurate information is immaterial
  • describing probable cause as a “practical, nontechnical conception”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Cudahy, Coffey, Rovner

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