{"id":24444,"date":"2016-11-18T12:14:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T17:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24444"},"modified":"2017-01-20T20:08:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T01:08:50","slug":"ca11-arguable-probable-cause-entitles-the-officer-to-qualified-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24444","title":{"rendered":"CA11: Arguable probable cause entitles the officer to qualified immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arguable probable cause entitles the officer to qualified immunity, here for a mental health seizure. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca11.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/files\/201511749.pdf\">May v. City of Nahunta<\/a>, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 20501 (11th Cir. Nov. 15, 2016), same result on rehearing, <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/media.ca11.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/files\/201511749.reh.pdf\">May v. City of Nahunta<\/a>, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 985 (11th Cir. Jan. 19, 2017) (posted <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25384\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant was arrested on an arrest warrant. He argued that the police didn\u2019t have probable cause to believe that he was the person named in the warrant [he was]. Since even arrest of the wrong person with an arrest warrant can be reasonable under Hill v. California, then surely the arrest of the right person on less than a certainty is reasonable, too. United States v. Mackin, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 156889 (N.D.Ind. Nov. 14, 2016).*<\/p>\n<p>The record doesn\u2019t support the trial court\u2019s finding of a lack of consent for a BAC test; the only evidence is to the contrary. <a href=\"https:\/\/efast.gaappeals.us\/download?filingId=dd3516b9-54e7-4ecf-995c-1c25585d67e6\">State v. Clay<\/a>, 2016 Ga. App. LEXIS 648 (Nov. 15, 2016).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arguable probable cause entitles the officer to qualified immunity, here for a mental health seizure. May v. City of Nahunta, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 20501 (11th Cir. Nov. 15, 2016), same result on rehearing, May v. City of Nahunta, 2017 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24444\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,50,40,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest","category-qualified-immunity","category-standards-of-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25386,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24444\/revisions\/25386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}