Johnie F. Karr v. Uniform Patrolman Smith and Officer L.N.U. (Mark Lemon), Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department

How courts have described this case

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• holding that police officers may make an arrest based on probable cause developed by other officers
• holding that police officers may make an arrest based on probable cause developed by other officers
• affirming directed verdict on a section 1983 claim for false arrest because probable cause existed for the arrest
• “The burden of going forward with evidence establishing the existence of probable cause is on the defendant in a 1983 action.”
• “The burden of going forward with evidence establishing the existence of probable cause is on the defendant in a 1983 action.”
• probable cause existed when officer observed that property damage was intentional and owner identified suspect as perpetrator

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).