Tyler Land v. Donald L. Edenfield, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Jackson County, Florida, et al.
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When is evidence of mere presence in a car with an alleged drug dealer sufficient for probable cause to arrest the driver?
QUESTION PRESENTED The Fourth Amendment prohibits law enforcement from searching and seizing a person pursuant to a warrant if the warrant is not founded upon a showing of probable cause to arrest the person. The question presented is: When an probable cause affidavit contains only evidence that a person was in a car with and drove an alleged drug dealer to and from a drug transaction but there is no truthful evidence in the probable cause affidavit that the person knew about the alleged illegal activity other his passenger and the only evidence to infer that the driver aided and abetted the criminal activity of the passenger is physical evidence, is that evidence sufficient for probable cause to arrest the driver? ii PARTIES The parties to this proceeding are set forth in the caption.