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Complaint False Arrest With No Evidence In Broward
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The four elements of an arrest are the intent to arrest, authority to arrest, subjection to arrest and the understanding by the person arrested that an arrest has occured.
False arrest is specified by both state and federal statutes. You are considered to have been placed under false arrest if the person detaining you did so without probabe cause. If you are placed under arrest without having committed a crime, chances are high that you have a case for false arrest.
If an officer is attempting to arrest you under unlawful circumstances, you have the constitutional right to resist the arrest. But what exactly is an “unlawful arrest?”An arrest is not unlawful merely because the office does not have strong or sufficient evidence that you committed the alleged crime.
A false arrest is the restraint or detention by one person of another without lawful justification (probable cause or a valid arrest warrant) under an asserted legal authority to enforce the process of the law.
Proving False Arrest To be successful with a civil lawsuit pertaining to false arrest, you must prove three elements of your case. These are as follows: Law enforcement officials arrested you without a valid warrant, without a warrant at all, or without probable cause. You suffered actual harm as a result.
A false arrest victim claim must allege that the employee of the retail establishment caused or directly procured his arrest without any evidence of a criminal violation, and that the restraint was unreasonable, unwarranted under the circumstances, and against the person's will.
A conservative estimate is that you can get $1,000 per hour of wrongful incarceration. This figure can go up to many thousands of dollars per hour if aggravating factors apply. For instance, if you had medical complications after your arrest and had to go to the hospital in handcuffs, then your payout could be higher.
Typically, plaintiffs bringing allegations of false arrest against state authorities need to prove all three of the elements outlined below. The arrest was inappropriate. The person detained suffered harm. An officer was the cause of the injury.
Often overlapping with false imprisonment, the intentional tort of false arrest involves someone being held against their will or taken into custody without consent or a legal justification. This can give rise to a civil claim for damages.