Gary D. Smiddy v. Dudley D. Varney, Sidney Nuckles, Raymond Inglin

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• discussing rebuttable presumption that prosecutor makes independent determination of probable cause, and absent evidence of undue pressure or deceit by police, cuts off officer liability for harm suffered after prosecution begins
• “[T]he independent act of the prosecutor four days after Smiddy’s arrest, unless shown to have been improperly influenced by the police officers, cut off further liability for damages suffered thereafter.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).