Quinnette v. Garland

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND JUDGMENT

WILLIAM P. GRAY, District Judge.

The defendant Garland is a deputy sheriff of Los Angeles County. In the course of his official duties, he arrested the plaintiff at the latter’s home pursuant to a warrant charging the offense of malicious mischief. The defendant took the plaintiff to jail, where he was booked and detained for two days and then was brought before a judge of the Municipal Court. The judge thereupon dis missed the case, as he certainly should have done, because the complaint and the warrant that formed the basis of the arrest and prosecution…