Porterfield v. Lott

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the arrestee’s right to be free from false arrest was not violated
• treating allegations that a warrant was invalid due to being based on falsehoods as a malicious prosecution claim
• “[W]e recognized implicitly that a claim for false arrest may be considered only when no arrest warrant has been obtained”
• “Probable cause requires more than ‘bare suspicion’ but requires less than evidence necessary to convict.”
• “Because the search . . . was effected pursuant to a valid warrant supported by probable cause, the search did not run afoul of [the] Fourth Amendment. . . .”
• “[A]llegations that an arrest made pursuant to a warrant was not supported by probable cause . . . are analogous to the common-law tort of malicious prosecution.” (quoting Brooks, 85 F.3d at 181-82)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).