Grant County Commissioners v. Cotton

OPINION

FRIEDLANDER, Judge.

We granted the Grant County Sheriffs petition to accept jurisdiction of this interlocutory appeal, which involves the trial court’s denial of the Sheriffs motion for summary judgment in this false arrest and false imprisonment action instituted by Mark Cotton.

The Sheriff raises several issues on appeal, but we address only the following dispositive issue:

Was the Sheriff entitled to summary judgment based upon a claim of immunity for detaining Cotton pursuant to an outstanding and facially valid arrest warrant issued by a judge of the Grant Superior Court?

We reverse…