Pierce v. Gilchrist

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• concluding that “falsification of in-culpatory evidence or suppressing of exculpatory evidence” that “was necessary to the finding of probable cause” would establish the lack of probable cause element
• concluding that the \existence probable cause at the time of the arrest \ is the wrong inquiry for malicious prosecution claims
• holding that defendant who fabricated evidence was not free of liability for malicious prosecution simply because she did not “initiate[]” or “file[] the charges”
• recognizing that causation is met where defendant’s statements “prevaricate[] and distort[] evidence” to cause prosecution against plaintiff
• concluding that forensic analyst who \distorted] evidence to convince the prosecuting authorities to press charges” couldn’t \ ‘hide behind’ the fact that she neither initiated nor filed the charges against” plaintiff
• holding that individual accrues a procedural due process claim for being arrested and prosecuted based on fabricated evidence “at some point after arrest, and certainly by the time of trial”

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