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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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• Officers should document all fact and circumstances that led them to

infer that there was probable cause of criminal activity even those

innocent factors that when mixed into the totality of circumstances

support the officers’ conclusions
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• Probable cause is not a high bar. Officers must be aware that when

questioned by attorneys on individual factors in isolation the officer

should always premise their answer on the fact that the officer did
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not consider that fact or circumstance in isolation but instead put all

the facts in a measuring cup and then looked at the whole mix rather

than one ingredient.

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