Leonard Askew v. City of Chicago, Illinois Frank E. Quinn III and Walter W. Puchalski

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the constitution permits police “to initiate the criminal process and leave the sifting of competing claims and inferences to detectives, prosecutors, judges, and juries in the criminal prosecution.”
• noting the inconsistencies to which the plaintiff pointed were normal and did not affect the uncontested facts that supplied probable cause for the plaintiff’s arrest
• noting exception where the police know of a grudge between the accuser and the accused
• explaining that eyewitness identification provides probable cause to arrest
• affirming summary judgment and probable-cause finding involving “competing and inconsistent stories” because “police on the scene must act yet lack the tools to determine immediately where the truth lies” (emphasis added)
• discussing discrepancies in the type of weapon the alleged assailant was wielding

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).