Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in California

Officer publicly convicts citizen without arrest or trial
I am a sub-contractor that until recently, shoped at the largest home improvement store in my area, on a daily basis. I recently was informed that a detective, from a law inforcement agency in my county, had a meeting with management from the store I used to shop at, approximately one year ago. This detective provided a photo of me and told management that I was defrauding their store, using store reciepts and claims he learned of this defrauding, while he was working an investigation, which had nothing to do with me. The officers reason for this meeting, was to help this store with their loss prevention. After this meeting, store management scheduled a company meeting, for all employees to see a photo of me and to be on the lookout for me. I was never arrested, questioned or confronted in any way, about these allegations, by law enforcement or store management. Since being informed of this, I now know why about one year ago, my shopping experiences became extremely uncomfortable and eventually led to me no longer shopping at this store. I have also had words with numerous employees as well as several members of management. Was it legal for this officer to defame my character at this business, when he had no evidence of this?

Asked on 2/25/05, 11:03 am

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Re: Officer publicly convicts citizen without arrest or trial

If you can 'prove' you were thus publicly accused of crimes, you may be able to pursue invasion of privacy and defamation claims.

Answered on 2/28/05, 9:20 pm

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