Willis v. Brassell

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• finding malicious-prosecution award supported by evidence that defendant gave officer false and/or misleading information leading to plaintiffs arrest
• stating that, under Georgia law, “[a] person may be 8 Case: 19-12476 Date Filed: 04/08/2020 Page: 9 of 14 liable where he gave information [to the investigating officer] which he knew to be false and so unduly influenced the authorities”
• affirming the jury’s verdict in favor of the plaintiff where she presented evidence “that tended to prove that [the defendant] relayed to the police information which he knew to be false, misleading or materially incomplete”
• “A person may be liable where he gave information [to the investigating officer] which he knew to be false and so unduly influenced the authorities.”
• evidence that malicious prosecution defendant falsified information regarding description of criminal trespass suspect raised question of fact regarding defendant’s reasonable cause to believe plaintiff guilty of crime
• recovery for malicious prosecution not confined to actual damages and punitive damages allowed where defendant was influenced by malicious motives and acted without probable cause

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