Bradier Steve Landol-Rivera, Etc. v. Gilberto Cruz Cosme and Jaime Cintron Ramos

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a hostage shot by police was not seized because the officers’ action was not “directed toward” shooting the hostage as a “specific individual”
• holding that a passenger who was accidentally shot by a police officer did not have a Fourth Amendment claim because the officer’s intent was to shoot the fleeing driver, not the passenger
• explaining that unintentional conduct may trigger Fourth Amendment liability “when a police officer accidentally causes more severe harm than intended to an individual”
• explaining that “mistakes of identity” are different from “inadvertent ‘acquisitions of physical control’” because “[i]t is intervention directed at a specific individual that furnishes the basis for a Fourth Amendment claim”
• applying Brower to find that a hostage who was accidentally injured when police shot at a robber was not seized under the Fourth Amendment
• finding no seizure where officers fired at a suspect driving with a hostage on his lap and an “errant bullet” struck the hostage because the officers’ actions were not “directed toward” the hostage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).