{"id":11810,"date":"2014-06-02T00:25:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T05:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11810"},"modified":"2014-06-01T12:34:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T17:34:47","slug":"ca6-malicious-prosecution-claim-fails-where-no-false-testimony-before-gj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11810","title":{"rendered":"CA6: Malicious prosecution claim fails where no false testimony before GJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plaintiff\u2019s grand jury indictment was sufficient probable cause to defeat a malicious prosecution claim. Plaintiff cannot show that the officer testified falsely or with reckless disregard for the truth before the grand jury. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/14a0109p-06.pdf\">Robertson v. Lucas<\/a>, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 9771, 2014 FED App. 0109P (6th Cir. May 28, 2014)*:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The crux of appellants&#8217; argument is that Lucas&#8217;s testimony to the grand jury contained knowing falsehoods because he did not tell the grand jury that information obtained from the confidential informant, Bray, was suspect based on Bray&#8217;s criminal history, theft of drugs and money belonging to law enforcement, and fabrication of evidence through the use of stand-ins or staged drug buys to frame individuals other than the appellants here. Appellants have presented no evidence that Lucas falsely testified to the officers&#8217; efforts to corroborate Bray&#8217;s information about them. That is, appellants cannot overcome the presumption of probable cause, see Mott, 524 Fed. Appx. 179, 2013 WL 1663219, at *7, and therefore cannot show that their own constitutional rights were violated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plaintiff\u2019s grand jury indictment was sufficient probable cause to defeat a malicious prosecution claim. Plaintiff cannot show that the officer testified falsely or with reckless disregard for the truth before the grand jury. Robertson v. Lucas, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11810\">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":[45,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11811,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810\/revisions\/11811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}