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Discover LudwigThe phrase "arrested without cause" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing legal matters, particularly when referring to someone being detained without sufficient justification or legal reason.
Example: "The protestor claimed he was arrested without cause during the demonstration, leading to a public outcry for justice."
Alternatives: "detained unjustly" or "apprehended without justification."
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Jason is a victim arrested without cause, held for months in isolation, without access to a lawyer, subjected to physical mistreatment and psychological abuse, and now convicted without basis.
— Jay Carney, the White House Press Secretary "We know that as protests escalate it may be difficult for police to distinguish bystanders from participants, but it is clear now that many journalists have been erroneously arrested without cause".
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A second council member, Ydanis Rodriguez, was arrested without cause near Zuccotti Park that same day, the lawsuit said, as was Paul Newell, a leader of a local Democratic district.
Officer Daragjati was recorded last April using a racial slur to brag about the arrest of the black man, whom prosecutors said the officer had stopped, searched, arrested without cause and falsely accused of resisting arrest.
Sheriff's deputies arrested him in 2010 while he was a bystander at a protest; though Mr. Reza was hauled before a judge in prison stripes, a prosecutor admitted he had been arrested without cause, and he was released.
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Mr. Sanchez lunged at four police officers at the crime scene, but he was arrested without causing any injuries, the police said.
He was, to quote one officer of the Suffolk County Police Department who prefers to remain anonymous, "a squirrel" – a man who would be easy enough to arrest without causing embarrassment.
The suit said that the plaintiffs had been arrested without probable cause, and that the arrests kept workers from exercising free speech — the right to signal their availability for jobs.
"The stipulation simply indicates that Ms. Hardeman will not be arrested without probable cause.
Yet he cautioned that "fear cannot be a factor to allow for the evisceration of the bedrock principle of our Constitution that no one can be arrested without probable cause that a crime has been committed".
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