Demarest v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• granting only qualified immunity to state probation officer who initiated probation revocation proceedings
• “it is clear that the Commission’s action in the present circumstances does not conflict with that [the antidiscrimination] underlying purpose”
• probation officer entitled to only qualified immunity for mistakenly causing arrest for probation violation, acting without court direction and at a phase of the criminal process less intimately associated with the judiciary
• only qualified immunity protects probation officer who mistakenly causes arrest and incarceration of probationer
• qualified immunity for probation officer’s filing false violation report with parole commission