{"id":55668,"date":"2023-08-25T06:26:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T11:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=55668"},"modified":"2023-08-25T06:26:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T11:26:30","slug":"ca7-pc-can-exist-even-if-officer-doesnt-believe-putative-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=55668","title":{"rendered":"CA7: PC can exist even if officer doesn&#8217;t believe &#8220;putative victim&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cBut Garcia has a high hurdle to combat a probable-cause determination because G.C., the putative victim, identified him as responsible. \u2026 An officer need not even believe that a witness is reliable to determine that her statement supports probable cause for an arrest because the assessment of credibility rests with courts, not officers.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca7.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/OpinionsWeb\/processWebInputExternal.pl?Submit=Display&amp;Path=Y2023\/D08-22\/C:22-1124:J:PerCuriam:aut:T:fnOp:N:3092748:S:0\">Garcia v. Posewitz<\/a>, 2023 U.S. App. LEXIS 21986 (7th Cir. Aug. 22, 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere was probable cause to search the Jeep even without this statement\u201d in the affidavit. United States v. Brooms, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 146420 (S.D. Fla. Aug. 1, 2023).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A landlord and the FBI violated no Fourth Amendment right to complain that the landlord rented an apartment to the FBI to harass him. Aboussa v. Keystone Mgmt. Co., 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 146718 (D.N.H. June 27, 2023).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Appellant\u2019s Franks challenge fails because the evidence supports the district court\u2019s conclusion. United States v. McKnight, 2023 U.S. App. LEXIS 22028 (9th Cir. Aug. 22, 2023).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut Garcia has a high hurdle to combat a probable-cause determination because G.C., the putative victim, identified him as responsible. \u2026 An officer need not even believe that a witness is reliable to determine that her statement supports probable cause &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=55668\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franks-doctrine","category-probable-cause","category-standing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55669,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55668\/revisions\/55669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}