Jeffrey Reed v. City of Chicago, a Municipal Corporation, John Griffin, Detective, W. Murphy, Detective

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• rejecting malicious prosecution claim because plaintiff had failed to show any improper influence or knowing misstatements by the police
• summarizing the constitutional approach applied in the sequence from arrest to post- conviction confinement
• malicious prosecution under Illinois law requires a plaintiff to allege there was no probable cause for the judicial proceedings
• court “not com- pelled to accept . . . conclusory allegations concerning the legal effect of facts set out in the complaint”
• wrongful arrest may be the first step towards a malicious prosecution
• “[T]he State’s Attorney, not the police, prosecutes a criminal action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).