Al-Kidd v. Ashcroft

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 2009-09-04

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BEA, Circuit Judge, concurring in part and dissenting in part: This case raises the question whether a person whom a prosecutor can rightly arrest under a statute becomes wrongly arrested if the prosecutor’s purpose in arresting him had nothing to do with the statute. Put another way, can a prosecutor, empowered by law to arrest an individual for one declared…

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