· 12/11/1996
Andrew Sledd v. Guy Linsday
Citations
- 102 F.3d 282
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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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