Ricciuti v. Transit Authority

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “lack of probable cause generally raises an inference of malice sufficient to withstand summary judgment”
• finding triable issue on whether officers were entitled to immunity from claim that they violated suspect's \clearly established Constitutional rights by conspiring to fabricate and forward to prosecutors a known false confession\
• denying qualified immunity where defendants forwarded a known false confession to prosecutors
• reversing grant of summary judgment on Section 1983 malicious prosecution claim where “a jury could find that [defendant] played a role in initiating the prosecution by preparing the alleged false confession and forwarding it to prosecutors”
• “[N]o one disputes that [the officer] started the assault prosecution by filing the charges of second-degree assault.”
• “No arrest, no matter how lawful or objectively reasonable, gives an arresting officer or his fellow officers license to deliberately manufacture false evidence against an arrestee.”

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