Aguirre v. City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

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• affirming jury verdict for plaintiffs wrongly accused and convicted of kidnapping and murder; malice may be “inferred from want of probable cause when the circumstances are inconsistent with good faith by the prosecutor and where the want of probable cause has been clearly proved”
• “a plaintiff may demonstrate malice by showing that the prosecutor proceeded with the prosecution for the purpose of injuring the plaintiff or for some other improper motive”
• “In Illinois, the jury is presumed to have followed its instructions.”
• stating burden of proof rests with plaintiff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).