Woodall v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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1. “To say in the abstract that probable cause is to be evaluated on the basis of the collective information of the police ignores the underlying assumption—and factual reality— that there is some communication between those officers, who do not know facts amounting to probable cause, and those who do not ... If no officer connected to the arrest knows the facts which might justify it, no officer exercises the judgment required as a substitute for judicial approval. Information scattered among various officers in a police department cannot substitute for possession of the necessary facts by a single officer related to the arrest.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Willett v. State