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RE: So?
By Shining Arcanine on 12/3/2006 9:07:48 AM , Rating: 2
Probable cause means that they have a reason to believe that something illegal is happening and thus do not need a judge's warrant. An excellent example would be if they hear screaming and gunshots coming from a building; they are not going to need a judge's warrant to break into the building to investigate, which is what is known as probable cause.

RE: So?
By Tyler 86 on 12/3/2006 11:23:46 PM , Rating: 1
Lifted from the Grand Wikipedia;

In the context of warrants, the Oxford Companion to American Law defines probable cause as "information sufficient to warrant a prudent person's belief that the wanted individual had committed a crime (for an arrest warrant) or that evidence of a crime or contraband would be found in a search (for a search warrant)."

Screaming and gunshots prompting immediate lethal reaction is to witnessing unaccounted-for containers handled by suspicious persons as warrantless probable cause is to warranted probable cause.

Different smell, same crap.

