United States Fifth Circuit

Where there is any valid reason for arrest, a law enforcement officer is entitled to qualified immunity from charges of false arrest and malicious prosecution on additional arrest charges later determined to be invalid.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/18/2001
• Published 07/18/2001

Judges

• E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:, Before JOLLY, SMITH and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Charles M. Merkel,Merkel & Cocke, Clarksdale, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellee., David Daniel O'Donnell, Howorth O'Donnell Walsh, Walter Alan Davis, Holcomb Dunbar, Oxford, MS, for Defendant-Appellant.