Webster v. Gibson

MAGILL, Circuit Judge.

Anthony Webster, an Arkansas prisoner, appeals the district court’s dismissal of his pro se 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action1 seeking *512damages against the prosecutor, sheriff and deputy sheriff for Ashley County, Arkansas, for depriving him of a prompt judicial determination of probable cause as required under Gerstein v. Pugh, 420 U.S. 103, 126, 95 S.Ct. 854, 869, 43 L.Ed.2d 54 (1975) (extended restraint of liberty following warrantless arrest) in violation of the fourth amendment. We hold that Webster’s section 1983 claim survived his subsequent conviction for terroristic…