James E. Malady, Jr. v. Tom Crunk, Bob Stewart, J.C. Skaggs

How courts have described this case

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• holding a state criminal conviction was a defense to a section 1983 suit asserting the arrest was made without probable cause
• adopting common-law rule that conviction of offense for which arrest is made is complete defense to § 1983 action asserting arrest was made without probable cause
• Posner, J., remarking that Cameron “serv[es] the limited function of preventing an end run around the principle that an unlawful arrest does not bar prosecution of the arrested person.”
• conviction of offense for which plaintiff was arrested is complete defense to Sec. 1983 action asserting arrest was made without probable cause
• conviction of underlying offense is complete defense to a civil rights action asserting arrest was without probable cause
• conviction is complete defense to § 1983 claim that plaintiff was arrested without probable cause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).