JOSHUA XAVIER HAMPTON v. STATE OF FLORIDA

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that the facts were “enough to give [the officer] probable cause”
• explaining that an arresting officer is not “required to sift through conflicting evidence or resolve issues of credibility” before making an arrest
• recognizing (in the context of excessive force during an arrest) that the Eleventh Circuit has “repeatedly held that painful handcuffing alone doesn’t constitute excessive force”
• recognizing, in the context of excessive force during an arrest, that the Eleventh Circuit has “repeatedly held that painful handcuffing alone doesn’t constitute excessive force”
• explaining that an arresting officer is not “required to sift through conflicting evidence or resolve issues of credibility” before making an arrest
• holding a battery investiga- tion was not inadequate when an officer made an arrest based solely on an alleged victim’s statement without interviewing two eyewitnesses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).