Sosa v. Crews

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a fair trial claim may arise under either the Fifth Amendment or the Sixth Amendment, as applied pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment, or both
• holding that the plaintiff’s and the officer’s conflicting accounts of the events underlying the charges created an issue of fact as to falsity
• recognizing that fabrication of evidence may support independent fair trial claim where, even if arrest was valid, defendant official later engages in fabrication that results in deprivation of plaintiffs liberty
• explaining that “a further deprivation of liberty can result from the fabrication of evidence even if the initial arrest is lawful”
• explaining that \a further deprivation of liberty can result from the fabrication of evidence even if the initial arrest is lawful\
• holding that fabricated evidence is material when it may affect “the prosecutor’s decision to pursue charges rather than to dismiss the complaint without further action” or could influence “the prosecutor’s . . . assessments of the strength of the case”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).