WASHINGTON v. HOWARD

No. 20-12148.

25 F.4th 891 (2022)

Vivianne Jade WASHINGTON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Investigator Jason Durand, in his individual capacity, Defendant. Investigator Hugh HOWARD, in his individual capacity, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Filed: February 7, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey R. Filipovits , Spears & Filipovits, LLC, Decatur, GA, Jennifer Beth Hickey , Jennifer Beth Hickey Law Office, Lilburn, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Timothy Joseph Buckley, III , Taylor Wayne Hensel , Buckley Brown, PC, Atlanta, GA, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before William Pryor, Chief Judge, Lagoa, Circuit Judge, and Schlesinger, District Judge.


This appeal requires us to decide whether an officer must release a suspect detained pursuant to a valid arrest warrant when he learns of possibly exculpatory evidence. During an investigation of the murder of an elderly woman, Vivianne Washington was arrested pursuant to a warrant...

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