Legal Opinion
Puller v. Baca
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided March 20, 2015No. 13-1156PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.
In 2009, Denver Police officers arrested Aaron Puller for his suspected involvement in a racially motivated attack on a man in downtown Denver. A state district court, without a hearing, dismissed the charges because it concluded that the affidavit of Detective Paul Baca, the officer who applied for and obtained the arrest warrant, had omitted material information and supplied false information that vitiated probable cause. Puller sought redress and sued Detective Baca under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The federal district court concluded that qualified immunity shielded…
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