Joshawa Webb v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that various defendants participated in the decision to prosecute because the prosecutor relied on their false statements in deciding to pursue an indictment
• holding that a reasonable police officer would have known that fabricating evidence would violate a suspect’s rights
• holding that the doctrine is inapplicable where the statements sought to be discredited do not contradict earlier statements
• holding that without allegations that the defendants “actively participated” or “implicitly authorized” the false arrest, the defendants cannot be liable for false arrest
• holding officer violated clearly established right to be free from malicious prosecution by fabricating evidence that defendant was a drug dealer
• stating that, when witness makes contradictory statements, including recantations, factfinder can determine “whether one statement is more truthful than the other”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).