Fleming v. Livingston County, Ill.

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• concluding that defendant officer had arguable probable cause to arrest plaintiff when he was the only person in the area, was seen a block away from the crime, and matched the description of the intruder
• holding evidence that charges were ultimately dropped has no bearing upon whether arguable probable cause supported seizure at the time of the arrest
• explaining that the probable cause “standard does not require that the officer’s belief be correct or even more likely true than false, so long as it is reasonable” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• stating that the probable-cause standard “does not require that the officer’s belief be correct or even more likely true than false, so long as it is reasonable” (quoting Qian v. Kautz, 168 F.3d 949, 953 (7th Cir. 1999))
• granting qualified immunity to arresting officer who “reasonably, albeit possibly mistakenly” believed probable cause existed
• upholding grant of summary judgment to sheriff’s employer on indemnification claim because sheriff was entitled to summary judgment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).