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Failure to Ascertain Arrestee's Identity Creates Liability for False Imprisonment

Failure to Ascertain Arrestee's Identity Creates Liability for False
Imprisonment


The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a Macon County, Alabama
Sheriff's deputy who failed to make an attempt to obtain information from
an arrestee for purposes of filing an arrest report was liable for false
imprisonment. The plaintiff ...

 

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