Hill v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions

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1. “[t]he issue is whether [the arresting officer’s] failure to investigate the [discrepancies] violated [the plaintiffs] Constitutional rights, and whether a reasonable officer would know such a failure would be a Constitutional violation. This is not a situation where [the officer] knew [the plaintiff] was not the subject of the warrant, or where [the officer] knew further investigation would have revealed there was no warrant for [the plaintiff]. This is a case where further investigation would have cast doubt on whether [the plaintiff] was the subject of the warrant. But that is always the case where an arrestee denies being the subject of a facially valid warrant; there can always be more investigation to verify identity. The question is, how much investigation does the Constitution require? In light of all the circumstances, we hold [the arresting officer] had sufficient consistent identifying information to reasonably conclude the warrant was for [the plaintiff] and no reasonable officer would have known failing to investigate further would violate the Fourth Amendment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 36 F. Supp. 3d 843 - Peterson v. City of Pine River