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Class Certification Denied in Delay of Probable Cause Hearings Suit

The plaintiffs (196 of them) sought to represent a class of persons
arrested without prior probable cause determinations challenging failure to
provide timely probable cause hearings.

The Supreme Court has said that generally, probable cause hearings should
occur within 48 hours of arrest, but more delay is not necessarily
unconstitutional ...

 

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