U.S. v. Mendez, No. 05-10205 (9th Cir.) (476 F.3d 1077) (February 23, 2007) (Judge Stephen Reinhardt)
Loaded on Feb. 1, 2007
published in Punch and Jurists
February 12, 2007
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Probable Cause.
Relying principally on Muehler v. Mena, 544 U.S. 93, 100-01, 161 L. Ed. 2d 299 (2005), the same judges who wrote the panel's earlier decision in this case, reported at 467 F.3d 1162 (9th Cir. Oct. 30, 2006), now reverse that decision.
Back in October, a divided panel …
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