Zaher Zahrey v. Martin E. Coffey

How courts have described this case

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• holding that creation of fabricated evidence never used against a party causes no constitutional injury
• holding that the “deprivation of liberty of which [plaintiff] complains [must] be shown to be the result of [the defendant’s] fabrication of evidence”
• holding that the “deprivation of liberty of which [plaintiff] complains [must] be shown to be the result of [defendant’s] fabrication of evidence”
• observing that “right at issue is a constitutional right, provided that the deprivation of liberty of which Zahrey complains can be shown to be the result of Coffey’s fabrication of evidence”
• holding “that there is a constitutional right not to be deprived of liberty as a result of the fabrication of evidence by a government officer acting in an investigatory capacity”
• recognizing a constitutional right “not to be deprived of liberty as a result of the fabrication of evidence by a government officer acting in an investigating capacity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).