{"id":7554,"date":"2012-10-02T14:56:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T07:16:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T07:16:59","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7554","title":{"rendered":"CA4: Reasonable mistaken identity was qualified immunity for three months detention as the wrong guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn a case of mistaken identity, Michael Dwayne Durham was charged and jailed in southwest Virginia for more than three months before the prosecutor realized and rectified the error. As a result, Durham initiated this civil action in the Western District of Virginia against, inter alia, officer David L. Horner, alleging a Fourth Amendment claim under 42 U.S.C. \u00a7 1983, plus a state law claim for malicious prosecution. The district court awarded summary judgment to Horner on the basis of qualified immunity, and Durham appeals. See Durham v. Horner, No. 2:09-cv-00012 (W.D. Va. Dec. 7, 2010) (the \u2018Opinion\u2019). As explained below, we affirm.\u201d Here, there was no showing of malice or ill-will against the plaintiff. <a href=\"http:\/\/pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinion.pdf\/111022.P.pdf\">Durham v. Horner<\/a>, 690 F.3d 183 (4th Cir. 2012), affg Durham v. Horner, 759 F. Supp. 2d 810 (W.D. Va. 2010). [Note: Try explaining this to a citizen. It can&#8217;t be done. I get a call a week from somebody who wants to sue when charges were dropped or they were acquitted. It takes considerably more than just getting out of it.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7554\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7554","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}