McDonald v. Craven

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a police officer who withheld exculpatory information from the prosecutor can be liable under § 1983
• “[T]he decisions in Taylor, Carter, and Goodwin now provide notice to police officers that they can be subject to monetary damages under section 1983 for failure to disclose exculpatory evidence to the prosecutor.”
• “An officer cannot invoke qualified immunity where he did not avail himself of readily available information that would have clarified matters to the point that [the criminal charges] would have been flatly ruled out as factually unsupportable.” (quotation marks omitted)
• police officer withheld exculpatory evidence after arrest and urged continuation of prosecution
• \An officer cannot invoke qualified immunity where he did not avail himself of readily available informa- tion that would have clarified matters to the point that [the criminal charges] would have been flatly ruled out as factu- ally unsupportable.\ (quotation marks omitted)
• upholding <br>substantial award to 1983 plaintiffs who were never <br>incarcerated

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).