California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Memro, 11 Cal.4th 786, 12 Cal.App.4th 783, 47 Cal.Rptr.2d 219, 905 P2d 1305 (Cal. 1995):
The foregoing facts, accepted by the court, supplied ample "reasonable cause" under state law (former 836, subd. 3), and ample probable cause under the federal Constitution--the standards are identical (People v. Talley (1967) 65 Cal.2d 830, 835, 56 Cal.Rptr. 492, 423 P.2d 564)--to believe that defendant had committed a crime and thereby justify a warrantless arrest (Dunaway v. New York (1979) 442 U.S. 200, 208, 213-214, 99 S.Ct. 2248, 2254, 2257, 60 L.Ed.2d 824 (plur.opn.); see also id. at pp. 215-216, 99 S.Ct. at p. 2258 [requiring probable cause to effect arrest made for investigative purposes] ).
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