Legal Opinion

United States v. Ricky Swift and Joe Louis Taylor

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided July 17, 2000No. 00-1028PublishedCited by 64 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Around 8:30 a.m. on September 2, 1999, two men robbed the First Source Bank in Osceola, Indiana, a few miles east of Mish-awaka and its neighbor, South Bend. Within hours of the robbery, the police thought they had the bandits in their clutches. But their case hit the skids when the suspects (now the defendants), Ricky Swift and Joe Taylor, filed motions to suppress the evidence, which the district court granted. The court reasoned that the duo was arrested without probable cause. This determination led to the conclusion that all the evidence seized after the…

2Cases cited24 opinions

  1. Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  3. United States v. LeonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  4. Ornelas v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1996
  5. United States v. CortezSupreme Court of the United States · 1981

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3Cited by64 opinions

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