Lay v. Pettengill, Novotny

How courts have described this case

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• holding the preliminary hearing “was a final judgment on the issue of probable cause”
• “[Proceedings are ‘terminated in favor of the accused’ ... only when their final disposition is such as to indicate the innocence of the accused.”
• “This presumption.- of probable cause is rebuttable only if a plaintiff can demonstrate that the earlier finding of probable cause was based on misleading, fabricated, or> otherwise improper evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).