When a police officer deliberately falsifies an arrest warrant and imprisons another officer by personally serving the warrant himself?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Thomas v. Sacramento Cnty. Dist. Attorney, No. 2:15-cv-2322 KJN P (E.D. Cal. 2015):
Los Angeles, 15 Cal.4th 744, 63 Cal. Rptr.2d 842 n.10 (1997), and when an officer "maliciously arrests and imprisons another by personally serving an arrest warrant issued solely on information deliberately falsified by the arresting officer himself." McKay v. County of San Diego, 111 Cal. App.3d 251, 168 Cal. Rptr. 442, 443 (1980).
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