WARNER, C.J.
Appellant, Israel Melendez, appeals a final judgment entered in conformity with a jury verdict finding in favor of the appellee, the Sheriff of Palm Beach County, on a claim of false imprisonment and battery. In charging the jury during the trial, the court refused to give an instruction explaining that the Sheriff's deputy was required to have probable cause to continue detaining the appellant after a stop based upon a BOLO report of a shooting. Instead...
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