Joseph Bailey v. City of Ann Arbor

OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

In this qualified immunity case, Ann Arbor police officers relied on a security camera’s footage of a robbery, allegedly without accounting for inconsistent eyewitness testimony, in drafting a search warrant for Joseph Bailey’s residence. Yet the warrant did not say whether the description of Bailey came from the robbery victim or just the video and indeed mentioned both sources of information. The description thus was not deliberately false, and the district court erred in holding that it was. A review of the video also confirms that there were few disparities…