Lester v. City of Tavares

How courts have described this case

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• “If the tort of false arrest was committed, [battery is] simply evaluated in calculating damages.”
• “[A] police officer does not have the discretionary authority to arrest a citizen whom the officer does not have probable cause to believe has committed an offense.”
• “[A] police officer does not have the discretionary authority to arrest a citizen whom the officer does not have probable cause to believe has committed an offense.”
• acts taken by police officer to make physical arrest and officer's preparation of arrest affidavit did not give rise to independent tort claims for battery and libel since acts were no more than ordinary incidents of arrest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).