Goncalves v. Reynolds

How courts have described this case

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• “Since plaintiff would have been in custody anyway, he cannot state a claim for false arrest.”
• “Likewise, an investigator or other nonjudicial officer is entitled to the same absolute immunity enjoyed by a prosecutor for acts that are (1) intimately related to the judicial process and (2) taken at the direction of the prosecutor.”
• “[A]t the time that these events occurred, plaintiff was already being detained pursuant to the earlier ... charges, and based upon his prior convictions.... Since plaintiff would have been in custody anyway, he cannot state a claim for false arrest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).