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Define "probable"
Posted by: Gerald Hurst (IP Logged)
Date: February 14, 2007 01:05PM

Here is an interesting quote from a concurrence by Judge Danny Boggs, U. S. Court of Appeals for Sixth Circuit:

"While courts have resisted mightily putting a number on probable cause, see Maryland v. Pringle, 540 U.S. 366, 371 (2003), at bottom a review of cases indicates that there must be some, albeit inchoate, feeling as to what kind of probability constitutes probable cause. My reading is that it does not require a belief that there is more than a 50% probability of evidence being found in a particular location. See, e.g., United States v. Gourde, 382 F.3d 1003, 1015 (9th Cir. 2004) (Gould, J., concurring) (collecting cases). If that were the case, one could never get a search warrant to search all three cars of a person for whom there was overwhelming evidence of general drug dealing, and specific evidence of a drug transaction the proceeds of which were now certainly in one of three cars in his garage, and certainly not in any of the others. However, to be more than a hunch or a supposition, in my own mind, requires a legitimate belief that there is more than a 5 or 10 percent chance that a crime is being committed or that evidence is in a particular location."



Subject Views Written By Posted
  Acceptable Level of Certainty 1673 Jim Mazerat 02/03/2007 09:47PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 1054 Jim Mazerat 02/04/2007 12:11PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 920 MIJ 02/04/2007 02:37PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 1091 Jim Mazerat 02/04/2007 05:12PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 1002 jmorse 02/04/2007 07:15PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 943 Jim Mazerat 02/05/2007 10:37AM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 1013 MIJ 02/05/2007 11:35AM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 952 jgmcfps 02/08/2007 11:09AM
  One more comment 949 jgmcfps 02/08/2007 11:13AM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 1038 Jim Mazerat 02/08/2007 11:55AM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 889 jgmcfps 02/08/2007 02:59PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 884 SJAvato 02/08/2007 03:59PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 1024 Jim Mazerat 02/08/2007 05:15PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 923 Jim Mazerat 02/08/2007 05:21PM
  Define "probable" 988 Gerald Hurst 02/14/2007 01:05PM
  Re: Define "probable" 1010 PMK140 02/14/2007 04:12PM
  Re: Define "probable" 949 Gerald Hurst 02/14/2007 10:20PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 953 jbflanigan 02/05/2007 04:22PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 887 Jim Mazerat 02/08/2007 12:13PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 858 MIJ 02/08/2007 06:02PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 987 Jim Mazerat 02/08/2007 08:10PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 956 MIJ 02/09/2007 09:47AM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 896 jgmcfps 02/09/2007 02:12PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 906 MIJ 02/09/2007 03:09PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 901 jgmcfps 02/09/2007 04:50PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 899 firecop5002 02/09/2007 08:17PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 876 Jim Mazerat 02/09/2007 10:01PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 828 dahebert 02/10/2007 08:12AM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 928 Jim Mazerat 02/09/2007 08:17PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 1049 jgmcfps 02/10/2007 02:40PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 879 Jim Mazerat 02/10/2007 04:36PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 1007 jgmcfps 02/11/2007 08:16AM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 972 Jim Mazerat 02/11/2007 09:10AM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 1173 John J. Lentini, CFEI 02/16/2007 02:48PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 1143 PMK140 02/16/2007 04:30PM
  Re: Acceptable Level of Certainty 975 Jim Mazerat 02/16/2007 07:11PM


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