Chase v. Turner

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the officer’s use of deadly force was not unreasonable where the suspect’s hands were raised because the possibility 16 existed for the suspect to reach into his waistband for the weapon he was believed to be carrying
• stating that while there were some questions of fact as to whether decedent possessed a gun, the officer’s belief that Mack had a gun was objectively reasonable
• granting summary judgment on derivative wrongful death claim where officers were granted qualified immunity on underlying excessive force claim
• granting summary judgment as to survivorship and wrongful death claims “because there is no underlying constitutional violation” by the officers accused of excessive force
• “[A]s long as [the officer’s] belief that [the suspect] was armed is reasonable, qualified immunity applies even if [the officer] was mistaken.”
• “The Eighth Amendment’s ‘deliberate indifference’ standard, applies, through the Fourteenth Amendment, to Plaintiff’s claim that Mack was denied medical attention after he was shot twice in the back” by a police officer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).