Limone v. Condon

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an officer who coaches a witness whom he knows will commit perjury is liable to a § 1983 suit
• holding that it is “self-evident” that “those charged with upholding the law are prohibited from deliberately fabricating evidence and framing individuals for crimes they did not commit”
• holding that it is “self-evident” that “those charged with upholding the law are prohibited from deliberately fabricating evidence and framing individuals for crimes they did not commit”
• explaining that the doctrine must be used only “to ensure meaningful review of the linchpin issue”
• noting that courts must be careful “not to permit a defendant to hijack the plaintiff's complaint and recharacterize its allegations” for their own benefit
• concluding government defendants had fair notice that presenting false evidence before court or prosecutor violated Fourteenth Amendment due process rights

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).