Case Name: Paul COLLINS, Appellant, v. CITY OF MIAMI, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2004-05-12
Citations: 881 So. 2d 565
Docket Number: No. 3D03-1041
Parties: Paul COLLINS, Appellant, v. CITY OF MIAMI, Appellee.
Judges: Before GERSTEN, GREEN, and ‘ SHEPHERD,. JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 881
Pages: 565–565

Head Matter:
Paul COLLINS, Appellant, v. CITY OF MIAMI, Appellee.
No. 3D03-1041.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
May 12, 2004.
Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied Sept. 15, 2004.
John G. Crabtree, Key Biseayne; Jeffrey A. Norkin (Plantation), for appellant.
Alejandro Vilarello, City Attorney, and Julie O. Bru, and Regine Monestime, Assistant City Attorneys, for appellee.
Before GERSTEN, GREEN, and ‘ SHEPHERD,. JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Affirmed. See Thomas v. Beary, 770 So.2d 699, 700 (Fla. 5th DCA 2000) ("[U]l-timate guilt or innocence is irrelevant to the right, even the obligation, of the police to make an arrest..If the officers' investigation reasonably convinces them that a party has committed a felony, this panel will not make the officers liable if facts given by a witness subsequently prove untrue."); Florida Game & Freshwater Fish Comm'n v. Dockery, 676 So.2d 471, 474 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996) ("To show probable cause in a false arrest situation, it is not necessary that the arresting officer know facts that would absolutely prove beyond a reasonable doubt the guilt of the person charged; probable cause exists when the circumstances are sufficient to cause a reasonably cautious person to believe that the person accused is guilty of the offense charged."); State v. Gavin, 594 So.2d 345, 346 (Fla. 2d DCA 1992) ("Once the witnesses identified the appellee as the man they had seen at the burglarized deli, the police had probable cause to make an arrest.").