Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Brown v. Department of the Navy
493 U.S. 831
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1989-10-02
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- intervening acts of prosecutor and grand jury break the chain of causation and shield the officer unless § 1983 plaintiff claiming false arrest and prosecution can show that intervening acts resulted from deception or undue pressure of officers
- "Federal prosecution was only a possibility over which the State Attorney had no control...."
- failure of counsel to warn client of such collateral consequences, absent actively providing misadvice, does not fall below the range of competence demanded of attorneys in criminal cases
- referring to federal/state cooperation as a “welcome innovation”
Citator
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- Authority status
- pending
- Cited by
- 85 opinions
C. A. Fed. Cir. Certiorari denied.