Practice question
Police receive only an unverified anonymous description of a passenger and bag, observe no corroborating suspicious conduct, and conduct an intrusive bag search. Does matching the innocent description alone necessarily establish probable cause?
- Yes, every matching description is sufficient
- Yes, anyone riding a jeepney automatically consents
- No reliable circumstances can ever support a search
- No
- The discovery retroactively supplies the missing cause
Legal references
- People v. Sapla, G.R.244045, June16 2020: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2020/jun2020/gr_244045_2020.html
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