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· 7/22/1986

United States v. William John Sutton, United States of America v. Freddie Goldbaum Ortiz, United States of America v. Valentine Frank Proitte

Citations

  • 794 F.2d 1415
  • 1986 U.S. App. LEXIS 27373

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 government’s agreement not to file charges against the defendant based on “conduct known to the government” referred only to criminal activity actually known to the government, not activity “that reasonably could have been known”
  • “We look to the col- lective knowledge of all the officers involved in the criminal investigation although all of the information known to the law enforcement officers involved in the investigation is not communicated to the officer who actu- ally makes the stop.”
  • suspicion justified by collective information known by officers

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Judges: Choy, Alarcon, Wiggins

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