Legal Opinion
Case v. Eslinger
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 29, 2009No. 08-10657PublishedCited by 312 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents the question whether an officer who received inconsistent allegations of criminal activity from an informant and independently corroborated several of those allegations had probable cause to make an arrest and seize property. After an investigation of thirty-seven days, Officer Frank Davis arrested David Case for larceny and passing a forged or altered instrument in connection with Case’s repossession business, and Davis seized property related to the charges. The charges against Case later were dismissed, and Case then filed a civil complaint of…
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