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The opinion inUS vs Cortez is well worth reading.See the link above.
It lays out how a couple Border Patrol agents figured out how to catch a smuggler bringingillegal aliens into the US.Just the facts themselves are worth reading. These guys wererealSherlock Holmes-types.
Theopiniondiscusses howLEO's are permitted todraw reasonable inferences from information obtained, andit shows how the BP agents did that, step by step.
It also discusses briefly at a few points how the information and inferences, on review by a court,must be viewed from the LEO perspective,not someone else to whom the connections might be meaningless.
So, back to particularized. I think particularized is a concept embedded withinreasonable articulable suspicion (RAS). And, over the years, particularized fell out ofuse, theprofession focusing on RAS.
