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· 12/28/2009

Bryan v. McPherson

Citations

  • 590 F.3d 767
  • 9 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 15
  • 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 28413

How courts have described this case

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  • considering the failure to give a warning as a factor militating against the reasonableness of X26 Taser usage
  • considering the failure to give a warning as a factor militating against the reasonableness of X26 Taser usage
  • “No reasonable officer confronting a situation where the need for force is at its lowest — where the target is a nonviolent, stationary misdemeanant twenty feet away — would have concluded that deploying intermediate force without warning was justified.”

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Judges: Harry Pregerson, Stephen Reinhardt and Kim McLane Wardlaw, Circuit Judges

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