King v. Graham

How courts have described this case

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• providing that an inference could be drawn if the only evidence the official had in deciding to prosecute was false
• noting that there was no evidence that the district attorney would have decided not to prosecute but for the allegedly false information
• providing that an adverse inference could be drawn if the only evidence -the official had in deciding to prosecute was false
• holding insufficient evidence of causation where “[n]othing in the record shows that the false information was material to the decision to prosecute”
• considering plaintiffs failure to offer any evidence, such as the district attorney’s opinion that the decision to prosecute was based on any false informa tion supplied by defendant
• “In other words, there must be proof that the prosecutor acted based on the false information and that but for such false information the decision would not have been made.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).