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162197P.pdf 06/09/2017 Christopher Kiesling v. Ross Spurlock
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-2197
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock
[PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Riley, Circuit Judge, and Gritzner,
District Judge]
Civil case - Civil rights. The district court erred in finding defendant
Spurlock was not entitled to qualified immunity on plaintiff's claim that
a search violated his civil rights; it was not entirely unreasonable for
Spurlock to believe that the affidavit he provided in the warrant
application contained sufficient indicia of probable cause for the search
and seizure of the items listed in the warrant; the affidavit provided
probable cause to believe that plaintiff was keeping deer in violation of
state law, and the list of items to be seized included items which were
either related to the capture and sale of wildlife or would aid in the
prosecution of the criminal act at issue. Judge Gritzner, dissenting.