Raymond Lee McKinney v. Velma George

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that state-created procedural right is not a liberty interest contemplated by the Fourteenth Amendment
• concluding that “it is unimportant” whether a crime actually occurred “provided that such conduct if true would justify [an] arrest … and provided the police had no reason to believe the complaint was untrue”
• noting that even if police officers exceeded their authority under a municipal ordinance in arresting the plaintiff, that did not mean they violated the Constitution
• noting that if an officer has probable cause for an arrest, “it is immaterial to the constitutionality of their conduct that the arrest may have violated state law”
• “If police officers have probable cause to make an arrest ... it is immaterial to the constitutionality of their conduct that the arrest may have violated state law.”
• If “police officers have probable cause to make an arrest, . . . it is immaterial to the constitutionality of their conduct that the arrest may have violated state law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).