He had claimed one enemy fighter as a probable and proceeded to the airfield to claim another victory—his 25th victory and claimed another three on the ground.
The State Human Rights Division determined in August 2007 that Ms. Santos had probable cause to proceed with a legal claim against the commissioner.
A judge has ruled there is probable cause to proceed with a murder trial against a woman accused of killing her infant son 15 years ago, the state attorney's office said yesterday.
The lawsuit was filed in February, and followed an investigation by the New York State Division of Human Rights, which determined that the former secretary, Auritela Santos, had probable cause to proceed with a legal claim against the commissioner, Edwin MéndEdwinntiago.
The report charged that the agency, the Commission on Human Rights, rarely finds probable cause to proceed with civil rights cases, accepted fewer new cases last year than usual and did not seek stiff enough penalties in cases that were settled.
"We believe that based on the information that the police and prosecutors had at the time, they had probable cause to proceed, and the confessions were sound," said Celeste Koeleveld, the city's executive assistant corporation counsel for public safety.
Then, last September, a report by the Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York, a new fair-housing advocacy group, concluded that the commission rarely found probable cause to proceed with civil rights cases, handled fewer new cases in 2002 than usual and did not seek stiff enough penalties in cases that were settled.
The local district attorney, Robert P. McCulloch, has convened a grand jury in St . Louis Countyto determine whether probable cause exists to proceed to a criminal trail under state law.
San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Michael Smith said that evidence outlined by investigators in the proceedings, including cell phone records and DNA analysis, had established probable cause for prosecutors to proceed to trial.
In Fort Wayne Books, Inc. v. Indiana (1989), the Court unanimously held that the government must show more than "mere probable cause" to seize the alleged proceeds and instrumentalities of crime if the seizure chills freedom of speech.
