Peggy Kelley v. Mark Myler, Gene Patrick, Ralph Bell and Hurricane Foods, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that officers had probable cause to arrest the plaintiff for trespass without checking official records
• holding that because third-party complainant’s information was reliable, police officers had no duty to investigate whether arrestee was on private property before arresting her for trespass
• finding that officers did not need to investigate plaintiff’s claim of innocence once they had established cause for trespass
• finding that criminal trespass and resisting a law enforcement officer sufficiently related
• finding that criminal trespass and resisting law enforcement are sufficiently related charges
• noting the inquiry is whether an officer has reasonable grounds on which to act, not whether it was reasonable to conduct further investigation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).