Erica C Pulford

Erica C Pulford

January 06, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer

High Court Considers Interplay of Federal Civil Rights Law and Malicious Prosecutions

Courts across the country are divided on the contours of the "favorable termination" requirement; some courts require that criminal proceedings ended in a manner that affirmatively indicates innocence, while other courts ask only whether a criminal case ended in a manner "not inconsistent with innocence."

By Stephen A. Miller and Erica C. Pulford

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