Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Demarest v. United States
Demarest v. United States, 466 U.S. 950 (1984)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1984-04-23
- Topic
- general
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
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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.