{"id":9775,"date":"2013-11-12T07:36:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T07:36:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T07:36:05","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9775","title":{"rendered":"CA6: Still QI for false arrest from an allegedly false arrest affidavit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clearly established law does not say that swearing a false arrest warrant violates the Fourth Amendment, so 1983 defendant gets qualified immunity. The complaint could potentially state a claim for malicious prosecution, but plaintiff never alleged that. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/13a0950n-06.pdf\">Schulz v. Gendregske<\/a>, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 22755, 2013 FED App. 0950N (6th Cir. November 5, 2013)*: <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here, no clearly established law compels the conclusion that officers who neither arrested the plaintiff nor swore false statements in a warrant affidavit can be liable for false arrest. (Schulz&#8217;s alleged facts might be a better fit with a malicious prosecution claim, as &#8220;existing cases do indicate that an officer may be responsible for commencing a criminal proceedings against a plaintiff, where the officer made, influenced, or participated in the decision to prosecute.&#8221; Sykes, 625 F.3d at 311 (internal quotation marks and alteration omitted). But Schulz did not sue Gendregske for malicious prosecution.) Thus, Gendregske is entitled to qualified immunity on Schulz&#8217;s false-arrest claim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Fourth Amendment presupposes a truthful showing of probable cause. Isn&#8217;t a false showing of probable cause leading to an &#8220;objectively <em>un<\/em>reasonable&#8221; seizure? If an officer can lie to get an arrest warrant and not be liable under the Fourth Amendment, then the Fourth Amendment seems to have lost meaning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9775\">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-9775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}