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Task: Probable Cause and Arrest
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District of Columbia v. Wesby, 2020 U.S. LEXIS 760 (2018).
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• A court will examine the events leading up to the arrest, and then
decide whether these historical facts viewed from the standpoint of
some objectively reasonable officer amounted to probable cause.
• Probable cause is determined not by taking each fact in isolation,
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but instead is a combination of all the known facts as the totality of
circumstances.
• Probable cause is a fluid concept that is not readily or even usefully
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reduced to a neat set of legal rules.
• Probable cause requires only a probability or substantial chance of
criminal activity, not an actual showing of activity.
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