Legal Opinion
State v. Flint
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided February 10, 2011No. Docket: Cum-10-324PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJabar, J.
[¶ 1] The line between an investigatory stop and a de facto arrest is often difficult to draw but highly significant — an arrest must meet the more demanding standard of probable cause. In this case, because we conclude that the police had probable cause to arrest Scott E. Flint, we affirm the denial of Flint’s motion to suppress entered in the Unified Criminal Docket (Cumberland County, Eggert, J.).
I. BACKGROUND
[¶ 2] Early in the morning of July 29, 2009, while Scarborough Police Sergeant Eugene O’Neill was monitoring traffic along Route 1 in a marked cruiser, two motorcycles passed that he…
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