Collins v. City of Miami

Florida District Courts of Appeal
Collins v. City of Miami, 881 So. 2d 565 (2004)
2004 Fla. App. LEXIS 6603; 2004 WL 1058327
Gersten, Green, Shepherd

Collins v. City of Miami

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Thomas v. Beary, 770 So.2d 699, 700 (Fla. 5th DCA 2000) (“[U]l-timate guilt or innocence is irrelevant to the right, even the obligation, of the police to make an arrest..If the officers’ investigation reasonably convinces them that a party has committed a felony, this panel ■will not make the officers liable if facts given by a witness subsequently prove untrue.”); Florida Game & Freshwater Fish Comm’n v. Dockery, 676 So.2d 471, 474 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996) (“To show probable cause in a false arrest situation, it is not necessary that the arresting officer know facts that would absolutely prove beyond a reasonable doubt the guilt of the person charged; probable cause exists when the circumstances are sufficient to cause a reasonably cautious person to believe that the person accused is guilty of the offense charged.”); State v. Gavin, 594 So.2d 345, 346 (Fla. 2d DCA 1992) (“Once the witnesses identified the appellee as the man they had seen at the burglarized deli, the police had probable cause to make an arrest.”).

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Full Case Name
Paul COLLINS v. CITY OF MIAMI
Cited By
1 case
Status
Published