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161485P.pdf 03/23/2017 United States v. Michael Evans
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-1485
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Riley and Kelly, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal case. The district court did not err in
determining the police lacked probable cause to arrest defendant as the
victim did not provide a positive identification sufficient to establish
probable cause; defendant lacked essential defining physical features
contained in the victim's description of her assailant and, together with
subsequently developed information, these discrepancies were so important
that they constituted a significant obstacle to finding probable cause;
the district court did not err in suppressing the firearm seized during
defendant's arrest.