Burke v. Town of Walpole

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “several jurisdictions have recognized, either by statute or by judicial decision, a conditional privilege for statements made by the police to members of the press or the public”
• explaining that material errors or omissions from warrant applications may violate the Fourth Amendment
• ‘Words may be found to be defamatory if they hold the plaintiff up to contempt, hatred, scorn or ridicule, or tend to impair his standing in the community. Imputations of criminality generally fit the bill.” (quotation and citations omitted)
• \Probable cause thus exists if the facts and circumstances within the relevant actors' knowledge and of which they had reasonably reliable information would suffice to warrant a prudent person in believing that a person has committed or is about to commit a crime.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).