Legal Opinion
United States v. Kevin Laville
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 16, 2007No. 06-1577PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
(March 16, 2007)
What is required for a finding of probable cause within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment can be a difficult question, made more difficult when, as here, there is a misunderstanding as to what one of our decisions has held. We write to correct that misunderstanding by making clear that state or local law does not dictate the reasonableness of an arrest for purposes of a Fourth Amendment probable cause analysis — a violation of state or local law is not, in other words, a per se violation of the Fourth Amendment. Rather, notwithstanding the validity of the…
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