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163131P.pdf 08/09/2017 Darryl Riddle v. Sergeant Timothy Riepe
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-3131
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Kelly, Author, with Gruender and Murphy, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil rights. The defendant police officers had probable
cause to arrest plaintiff for violating Kansas City Ordinance Section
50-44(a) and the district court did not err in granting defendants' motion
for summary judgment on plaintiff's malicious prosecution claim; reading
the officers' report in the light most favorable to plaintiff, any
misleading impression the report may have created demonstrated at most
negligence and that is not sufficient to support a claim of fabrication of
evidence; similarly, plaintiff's claim for manufacture of false evidence
failed; because plaintiff's fabrication of evidence claim was properly
dismissed, his civil conspiracy claim must also fail.