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Montgomery v. De Simone, No. 97-5179 (3rd Cir.) (159 F.3d 120) (October 16, 1998) (Judge Carol Los Mansmann)

Here the Court held that the common law rule, embodied in the Restatement of Torts, that a conviction presumptively establishes the existence of probable cause does not apply in the context of a § 1983 suit for malicious prosecution.

The Court reasoned that applying a presumption of probable cause on ...

 

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