Legal Question in Criminal Law in Virginia

Probable Cause arrest

Does hearsay evidence alone from a 3rd party who neither present nor witness to a crime in question provide probable cause for a policeman to arrest someone months later after the crime without a warrant and no supportive or corroborating evidence?


Asked on 2/16/09, 4:37 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

Re: Probable Cause arrest

If you mean to ask whether the probable cause determination which you've described was sufficiently established to justify the arrest of the person which apparently resulted therefrom, my answer would be, no, perhaps, not.

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Answered on 2/16/09, 5:08 pm


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