The US Supreme Court won’t consider if it’s constitutional for police to arrest someone without a warrant for a misdemeanor that wasn’t committed in their presence.
A grand jury charged Victor Gonzalez with felony possession of stolen mail after police arrested him for misdemeanor loitering in a Miami neighborhood and found several pieces of mail addressed to neighborhood residents when they searched him.
Gonzalez tried to suppress the evidence against him. Because he didn’t commit any misdemeanor in the officers’ presence, he argued they lacked probable cause to arrest and search him. The argument was rejected by a federal district ...
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