Eugene Rutledge v. City of Oakland

MEMORANDUM

Eugene Darrell Rutledge, a California state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging that defendants violated his Fourth Amendment rights when they detained him for a six-day period as a robbery suspect before they obtained a judicial determination of probable cause as to the state robbery charges. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo. Morrison v. Hall, 261 F.3d 896, 900 (9th Cir.2001). We affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment because the undisputed evidence shows that there was a valid federal warrant establishing probable cause for Rutledge’s arrest and detention. See United States v. Bueno-Vargas, 383 F.3d 1104, 1107 (9th Cir.2004) (“When an arrest has been made subject to a warrant, a judicial determination of probable cause has already been made as a prerequisite to obtaining the arrest warrant.”); see also John v. City of El Monte, 515 F.3d 936, 940 (9th Cir.2008) (“Probable cause is an objective standard and the officer’s subjective intention in exercising his discretion to arrest is immaterial in judging whether his actions were reasonable for…