· 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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