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To: Secret Agent Man

No. Probable cause is not needed for an arrest. You are mixing up terms. It is also entirely legal to arrest someone for one crime (driving drunk) and then use the information you find (drugs in the car) to prosecute them for another. That has always been true.


67 posted on 02/25/2014 6:08:19 PM PST by Mr Rogers (I sooooo miss America!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“Probable cause is not needed for an arrest.”

I’m wrong...got hasty in writing. Sorry.


80 posted on 02/25/2014 6:30:39 PM PST by Mr Rogers (I sooooo miss America!)
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