CASE v. ESLINGER

No. 08-10657.

555 F.3d 1317 (2009)

David CASE, Associated Investigators, Inc., a Florida corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Donald ESLINGER, in his official capacity as Sheriff of Seminole County, Florida, City of Sanford, FL, a Florida Municipal Corporation, Frank Davis, individually, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 29, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard S. Marks, Graham, Builder, Jones, Pratt & Marks, LLP, Winter Park, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Christine H.D. Moser, Donald Andrew DeBevoise, DeBevoise & Poulton, P.A., Winter Park, FL, Gloria Ann Carr, Douglas True Noah, Dean, Ringers, Morgan & Lawton, PA, Gail C. Bradford, Douglas True Noah, Dean, Ringers, Morgan & Lawton, PA, Orlando, FL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before BIRCH and PRYOR, Circuit Judges, and STROM, District Judge.


PRYOR, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the question whether an officer who received inconsistent allegations of criminal activity from an informant and independently corroborated several of those allegations had probable cause to make an arrest and seize property. After an investigation of thirty-seven days, Officer Frank Davis arrested David Case for larceny and passing a forged or altered instrument in connection with Case's repossession business, and Davis...

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