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  2. Retaliatory arrest and prosecution - Wikipedia

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    A retaliatory arrest or retaliatory prosecution occurs when law enforcement or prosecutorial actions are initiated in response to an individual’s exercise of their civil rights, such as freedom of speech or assembly. These actions are considered forms of misconduct, as they aim to punish individuals for engaging in constitutionally protected ...

  3. Justification and excuse - Wikipedia

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    A defense of justification is the product of society's determination that the actual existence of certain circumstances will operate to make proper and legal what otherwise would be criminal conduct. A defense of excuse, contrarily, does not make legal and proper conduct which ordinarily would result in criminal liability; instead, it openly ...

  4. Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach (2018) - Wikipedia

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    Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, 585 U.S. ___ (2018), is a case in which the United States Supreme Court decided that the mere existence of probable cause for an arrest did not bar the plaintiff's First Amendment retaliatory arrest claim, but deferred consideration of the broader question of when it might.

  5. Michael Cohen can't hold Donald Trump liable for retaliatory ...

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    Michael Cohen can’t hold his former boss, ex-president Donald Trump, liable because he was jailed for what he claimed was retaliation for writing a tell-all memoir, an appeals court said Tuesday.

  6. Nieves v. Bartlett - Wikipedia

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    Nieves v. Bartlett, 587 U.S. 391 (2019), was a civil rights case in which the Supreme Court of the United States decided that probable cause should generally defeat a retaliatory arrest claim brought under the First Amendment, unless officers under the circumstances would typically exercise their discretion not to make an arrest.

  7. SCOTUS Makes It Easier for Victims of Retaliatory Arrests To ...

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  8. Prosecutorial misconduct - Wikipedia

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    In jurisprudence, prosecutorial misconduct or prosecutorial overreach is "an illegal act or failing to act, on the part of a prosecutor, especially an attempt to sway the jury to wrongly convict a defendant or to impose a harsher than appropriate punishment."

  9. The Steve On Your Side team discovered that 203 families have complained to the state about similar retaliation since the program began offering benefits in January 2024. Nearly 160 complaints ...