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· 12/11/1996

Andrew Sledd v. Guy Linsday

Citations

  • 102 F.3d 282

How courts have described this case

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  • denying qualified immunity to 6 In Tenorio v. Pitzer, 802 F.3d 1160, 1163 (10th Cir. 2015
  • finding officers’ actions objectively unreasonable even though decedent was holding a rifle when officers encountered him
  • police created situation unreasonably necessitating use of force when they executed a late-night, no-knock search warrant in plain clothes and failed to announce their identities, causing homeowner to grab a rifle because he believed they were intruders

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Judges: Coffey, Ripple, Wood

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