Cullison v. City of Peoria

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• defining false imprisonment as “the detention of a person without his consent and without lawful authority”
• affirming summary judgment 26 on a malicious prosecution claim where there was no showing of a lack of probable cause
• noting, where appellant did not provide the relevant transcript, appellate court is “unable to give any consideration to appellant’s attempt to recite the events which occurred during the course of the preliminary hearing”
• stating that speculation is not competent evidence
• police were not guilty of gross negligence in relying on the identification of an eyewitness
• “whether a given state of facts constitutes probable cause is always a question of law to be determined by the court”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).