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193507P.pdf 01/28/2021 Mitchell Wood v. Justin Wooten
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 19-3507
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - Cape Girardeau
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Kobes, Circuit
Judge]
Civil case - Civil rights. Defendant had probable cause to arrest
plaintiff; an officer's misstatement of the reasons for the arrest does
not nullify an otherwise lawful arrest; claim that defendant fabricated
evidence about the arrest after the fact does not change the fact that
defendant had probable cause at the time of arrest.