Singer v. Fulton County Sheriff

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• holding that a complainant asserting a malicious prosecution claim must show some deprivation of liberty consistent with a seizure
• concluding that an unequivocal identification of a suspect by an eyewitness is sufficient to provide probable cause
• holding that “[t]he Fourth Amendment right implicated in a malicious prosecution action is the right to be free of unreasonable seizure of the person”
• noting that “ ‘[t]he elements of a claim of false arrest under § 1983 are substantially the same as the elements of a false arrest claim under New York law.’ ”
• affirming summary dismissal of claim on the ground that the facts as to store owner’s complaint of theft revealed existence of probable cause
• finding no chilling effect where, after an arrest, the plaintiff continued to publish his newspaper through which he criticized the village government

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