Smithfield Packing Co., Inc. v. Evely

How courts have described this case

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• first citing Brown v. Dart Drug Corp., 77 Md. App. 487, 493 (1989); then citing Wood v. Palmer Ford, Inc., 47 Md. App. 692, 701 (1981)
• “[A] defendant may not be held liable for malicious prosecution for relying upon the independent judgment of a prosecutor or attorney where the defendant has made a full disclosure of all material facts relative to the charges being made.”
• “ ‘We have defined probable cause as facts and circumstances sufficient to warrant a prudent person in believing that the suspect had committed or was committing an offense.’ ” (quoting Okwa v. Harper, 360 Md. 161, 183-84, 757 A.2d 118 (2000) (brackets omitted))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).