Supreme Court· 6/26/1979

Baker v. McCollan

Citations

443 U.S. 137
99 S. Ct. 2689
61 L. Ed. 2d 433
1979 U.S. LEXIS 141

How courts have described this case

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holding that three days of admittedly improper pre-trial detention did not amount to a deprivation of liberty without due process
holding that once a police officer has a reasonable basis to believe there is probable cause to arrest, the officer is not required to explore or eliminate every theoretically plausible claim of innocence before making an arrest
stating that the first step in a § 1983 analysis is to identify the specific constitutional right involved
recognizing that there is a due.process violation when a person is “detained indefinitely in the face of repeated protests of innocence even though the warrant under which he was arrested and detained met the standards of the Fourth Amendment”
finding that arrestee was \deprived of his liberty\ when detained in county jail for three days
holding there is no cognizable constitutional claim 26 for wrongful detention pursuant to a valid warrant

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Judges: Rehnquist, Burger, Stewart, White, Blackmun, Powell, Blacic-Mun, Marshall, Stevens, Brennan

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