Van Bering Robinson v. John Maruffi, Joseph Polisar, Clarence Kraemer and Eloy Whitey Hansen, Chief of Police

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• holding sufficient evidence of malice where “the defendants purposely concealed and misrepresented material facts” by manufacturing testimony for the “state’s key witnesses”
• indicating that conspiracies involving “discrete claims of [constitutional] wrongs, despite their being averred as a continuing wrong,” accrue when the plaintiff is injured
• decisions to indict or to prosecute do not “shield a police officer who deliberately supplied misleading information that influenced the decision.”’
• no break in causation where key witnesses to robbery and murder was coerced into giving false, memorized testimony
• statute of limitations for malicious prosecution did not accrue because defendant remained subject to serious charges
• “[D]iscrete claims of [constitutional] wrongs, despite their being averred as a continuing wrong, have been held barred where outside the time bar.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).