Holmes v. Village of Hoffman Estates

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that allegation that officer slammed head of nonresisting suspect against car roof supported claim for excessive force
• noting that probable cause turns on conclusions reasonable officer could make from information known at time of arrest
• holding that “the basis for each charge must be examined separately, and if probable cause was lacking as to any charge, the defendant[] still may be held liable for his prosecution on that unsupported charge”
• noting that “so long as there is a reasonable basis for the arrest, the seizure is justified on that basis even if any other ground cited for the arrest was flawed”
• denying summary judgment where no reasonable officer could have thought that “gratuitous force” was justified on an “unresisting arrestee”
• agreeing with Johnson and Posr when considering a state-law claim of malicious prosecution

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