Bletz v. Gribble

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that an officer acts unreasonably when shooting someone who fully complied with the officer’s command to lower his weapon
• holding that “district court erred in not dismissing plaintiff’s state-law gross-negligence claim” premised on officers’ use of excessive force and “revers[ing] district court’s decision to deny summary judgment on [that] claim”
• holding that a woman at the scene of a shooting who was not a suspect was properly handcuffed and placed in a police car while the officers secured the scene, but that it was a jury question whether it was for a reasonable amount of time
• holding “[l]aw enforcement officers were fairly on notice regarding the constitutional violations inherent in subjecting an innocent bystander to a detention that was excessive both in duration and in the manner it was carried out”
• denying qualified immunity to officers who used deadly force on a plaintiff because jurors could conclude that even though the plaintiff held a gun, he appeared to be complying with police commands
• denying qualified immunity where a suspect’s actions could have reflected compliance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).