United States Seventh Circuit

Where there is no question but that a crime took place, and the police have eyewitnesses who claim to identify the criminal, the Fourth Amendment does not require that the police conduct an independent investigation to verify the credibility of the witnesses.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/02/2001
• Published 11/02/2001

Judges

• TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, KANNE and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James T. Harrison (argued), Woodstock, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James G. Sotos, Dana M. Shannon (argued), Hervas, Sotos, Condon & Bersani, Itasca, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.