KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A man’s lawsuit alleging malicious prosecution against Columbia police will be allowed to proceed against three officers, a Missouri appeals court ruled Tuesday.
Nicholas Daniels filed the lawsuit in 2016 after he was arrested during a bar fight in Columbia in 2013.
The Western District Court of Appeals ruled that Circuit Judge Kevin Crane incorrectly ruled in favor of three officers named in the lawsuit. The court upheld Crane’s ruling in favor of former Sgt. Candy Corman and former police Chief Ken Burton, the Columbia Daily Tribune reported.
Daniels did not appeal Crane’s ruling against his claims he was assaulted by the officers or that he was falsely imprisoned.
After the fight at the Fieldhouse bar, Daniels was charged with trespassing, assault on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest. The case was eventually dismissed.
A federal judge later ruled against Daniels in a civil rights lawsuit but did not rule on the state claims, which were the subject of the appeals court ruling Tuesday.
The ruling allows Daniels to proceed to trial on the issues of whether there was probable cause to prosecute him and whether the decision to dismiss the criminal charge amounted to abandonment of the case by the prosecutor.
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