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· 7/17/2000

United States v. Ricky Swift and Joe Louis Taylor

Citations

  • 220 F.3d 502
  • 2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 16920
  • 2000 WL 974357

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that probable cause is needed to effectuate an arrest
  • \Evidence which is obtained as a result of an illegal arrest is fruit of the poisonous tree.\
  • “The exclusionary rule is a judicially created remedy, aimed at curbing overly zealous police action. It tells police that if they obtain evidence illegally, they will not ordinarily be allowed to use it against the suspect they are after.”
  • police officer reasonably stopped a red jeep based on reports that bank robbers had escaped in a matching vehicle that included some of the same license plate numbers, coupled with knowledge that a red jeep involved in other robberies might be found in complex where jeep was stopped
  • police officer reasonably stopped a red jeep based on reports that bank robbers had escaped in a matching vehicle that included some of the same license plate numbers, coupled with knowledge that a red jeep involved in other robberies might be found in complex where jeep was stopped

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Judges: Easterbrook, Wood, Evans

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