George Jones, Cross-Appellant v. City of Chicago, Cross-Appellees

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• concluding that officers can only be liable for malicious prosecution action where they \have been instrumental in the plaintiff's continued confinement or prosecution\
• noting that a malicious prosecution claim could be stated \[i]f police officers have been instrumental in the plaintiff's continued confinement or prosecution\
• noting that “street files” are CPD files that had been wrongfully withheld from the state’s attorney and defense counsel in many homicide cases
• noting that supervisors can only be held liable for their personal involvement in unconstitutional conduct, which must rise above the level of inactionable negli gence or gross negligence
• noting that supervisors can only be held liable for their personal involvement in unconstitutional conduct, which must rise above inactionable negligence or gross negligence
• holding police officers could be held liable when they “deliberately supplied misleading information that influenced the decision” of the prosecutor to pursue the case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).