Forest v. Pawtucket Police Department

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that officers are entitled to rely upon a \credible complaint by a victim to support a finding of probable cause\ without corroborating every aspect of the complaint
• “[T]he law is clear that once police offic- ers are presented with probable cause to support an arrest, no further investi- gation is required at that point.”
• *“*[T]he primary inquiry . . . is whether there is any evidence that the officers acted unreasonably when they determined that [the victim’s] accusation was credible, in light of all the circumstances known at the time.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).