Legal Opinion
Daniel Newman v. Hamburg Township
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 12, 2014No. 14-1455PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
Daniel Newman filed this malicious prosecution action under § 1983 and state law, accusing Michigan police officer Eric Calhoun of deliberately misrepresenting a witness’s statement when he presented an affidavit to a state judge in support of an arrest warrant for murder. The district court rejected Calhoun’s motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity, and Calhoun filed this interlocutory appeal. Because ample evidence of probable cause for Newman’s arrest exists, and no evidence reveals a deliberate or reckless misrepresentation by Calhoun, we…
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