Supreme Court Will Consider If Police Can Be Sued for Fabricating Evidence

Published on December 14, 2023

The Supreme Court will consider whether an Ohio jeweler can bring civil rights claims against police for malicious prosecution after criminal charges brought against him were dropped. The case comes after the Supreme Court loosened the legal standard for bringing such lawsuits against police in federal courts in 2022, finding that plaintiffs may proceed if they can demonstrate that their criminal cases ended without a conviction. The court announced in an unsigned order on Dec. 13 that it granted the petition for certiorari, or review in Chiaverini v. City of Napoleon, Ohio. No justices dissented. The court did not explain why it made the decision. At least four of the nine justices must vote for the petition for the case to proceed to the oral argument stage....

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