Legal Opinion
Jackson v. City of San Diego
California Court of Appeal
Decided July 14, 1981No. Civ. 22257PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
WIENER, J.
The emotionally charged question in this appeal is whether an innocent man, convicted and imprisoned for crimes he did not commit, can obtain damages for the entire period of his incarceration.
We are unable to treat this question as an original proposition. The Legislature in enacting the California Tort Claims Act (Gov. Code, § 810 et seq.) 1 has explored and attempted to balance the competing policy considerations for and against governmental immunity. By expressly providing in section 820.4 that a public employee is liable for false arrest or false imprisonment, the…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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