Albert Woods v. City of Chicago, Officer Makowski, Chicago Police Officer 16971, Officer Alanis, Chicago Police Officer 5001

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• holding that, as a general rule, an unauthenticated police report is not properly considered on summary judgment
• holding that a party’s attachment of a document to its pleading and reliance on that document constitutes an admission under Rule 56
• holding that “report from a single, credible” witness can be basis for probable cause
• holding that statements in a police report are admissible to show the effect on the officer who heard them, regardless of “whether the information in the tips turns out to be true”
• holding that statements describing details of alleged altercation in arrest report and criminal complaint were admissible where defendants offered them not for their truth, but to show the effect that the statements had on the officers
• noting that the reasoning in Cerqueira is “persuasive and applicable to the facts of this case”

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