Court Opinion

ID: 9457175
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 20:14:32.373982+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:35:14.786134
License: Public Domain

ELY, Circuit Judge
(dissenting):
I respectfully dissent. In the light of the Supreme Court’s very recent decision in Whitely, I believe that the majority’s disposition of the appeal is mistaken. My Brothers undertake, in one sentence, to distinguish Whitely. I do not criticize their brevity, but I do most strongly disagree that the suggested distinction is so sufficiently adequate as to avoid the thrust of the Supreme Court’s latest expression with respect to the type of warrantless arrest and search to which the appellant in our case was subjected. The police “guessed” that they had the right man, but the fact that they were good “guessers” cannot, of course, be equated with the probable cause which is the indispensable prerequisite for an arrest and which, in my opinion, was nonexistent when the arrest in this case was made.