Christopher S. Goble v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Restraining an individual may be appropri- ate in ‘inherently dangerous situations,’ even where the offic- ers do not suspect the restrained individual of a crime.”
• “The officers might have made mistakes, and those mistakes might have provoked [the decedent’s] violent resistance. Even if so, however, it does not follow that their actions violated the Fourth Amendment.”
• “in King . . . we concluded that officers reasonably used deadly force during a welfare check when a mentally unstable man ‘pointed a large knife at them, disregarded their repeated commands to drop the knife, and then charged’ at the officers.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).