Opinion ID: 1196732
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Heading: the probable cause to arrest

Text: Stopped three to four blocks from the reported burglary on February 20, 1979, and in an area where twenty daytime burglaries had occurred since January of the same year, appellant matched detailed descriptions known to Officer Reusch which had been given previously by a burglary victim and a burglary witness: a light colored black man, five foot seven to five foot eight, one hundred and fifty pounds, medium build and in his twenties; appellant fit the above description down to a hairy mole on his face. Cranford v. State, 95 Nev. 471, 596 P.2d 489 (1979); Washington v. State, 94 Nev. 181, 576 P.2d 1126 (1978); Singleton v. State, 87 Nev. 53, 482 P.2d 288 (1971); Nootenboom v. State, 82 Nev. 329, 418 P.2d 490 (1966); Whitley v. State, 79 Nev. 406, 386 P.2d 93 (1963). Admission of the fingerprint exemplar was, therefore, proper. Davis v. Mississippi, 394 U.S. 721, 89 S.Ct. 1394, 22 L.Ed.2d 676 (1969); People v. Flores, 524 P.2d 353 (Cal. 1974). The issue of probable cause having been fully litigated in No. 12311, and appellant having offered no new facts justifying a second determination in front of the same judge in No. 12406, his contention of a denial of due process is without merit.