City of St. Petersburg v. Austrino

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an identification or a report from a single credible victim or eyewitness can provide the basis for probable cause, but the arresting detective did not make adequate investigation to establish probable cause prior to making arrest for prescription fraud
• upholding judgment against a city on a false arrest claim based on the arresting officer’s failure to adequately investigate
• “The gravamen of the tort of false arrest is the unlawful restraint of a person against that person’s will.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).