Stansbury v. Wertman

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that officer had probable cause to effect arrest where, inter alia, arrestee had “previous arrest for a similar crime”
• holding that probable cause to arrest is “an absolute defense to a false arrest claim”
• concluding that the use of a single photo array was unduly suggestive and akin to a single suspect show-up
• holding that probable cause to arrest is “an absolute defense to a false arrest claim”
• noting that a court may determine whether a constitutional violation is adequately alleged before it decides whether a defendant is shielded by qualified immunity
• finding that deficiency in witness’s description, “if it was one, was overcome by other evidence, including a positive, sworn identification by the same [witness]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).