Weststar Mortgage Corp. v. Jackson

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• noting that a “defendant can be regarded as an instigator of a proceeding if he ... communicates material information falsely or inaccurately and the prosecutor relies on his statement”
• stating that when a criminal prosecution is terminated for a reason that is not related to the merits, the termination is not considered to be favorable to the accused
• reporting an incident and cooperating with prosecution are not sufficient as a matter of law to establish that the defendant “initiated the criminal proceedings”
• quoting, in parenthetical, D. Dobbs, The Law of Torts § 430, at 1216 (2000)
• “Probable cause ... is to be judged by facts as they appeared at the time, not by later-discovered facts.”
• “The elements of this cause of action [for malicious prosecution] were defined as follows: (1) the initiation of judicial proceedings against the plaintiff by the defendant; (2

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