Sawyer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 603 So. 2d 1349 - STATE, DEPT. OF HWY. SAFETY v. DeShong · 565 So. 2d 787 - State v. Eldridge · 901 So. 2d 222 - State v. Boatman · 690 So. 2d 706 - Steiner v. State · 734 So. 2d 525 - Horsley v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“If we were to permit [a citizen informant's] observations which were relayed to the police as sufficient to constitute the officer's knowledge of an essential element of a crime, then as to misdemeanors there would be no point in the statutory requirement that the misdemeanor be committed in the officer's presence. Any citizen could walk up to an officer and relate the commission of a misdemeanor by someone, and the officer would have probable cause to arrest. This is clearly inconsistent with the statutory requirements.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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