Christopher Sample v. Jason Bailey

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• holding that the first step in the qualified immunity analysis is whether a constitutional violation has occurred
• holding that the officer violated the suspect’s constitutional rights when the officer shot the suspect as the suspect exited a cabinet toward the officer
• holding that the issue of “whether the facts as alleged by [the plaintiff] demonstrate a violation of a clearly established constitutional right” presents a “neat abstract issue of law”
• holding that it was an “obvious case” that a police officer may not shoot an unarmed, intoxicated, and unresponsive suspect who moved his hand when ordered to exit the cabinet where he was hiding
• noting that “only in rare instances may an officer seize a suspect by use of deadly force” (internal quotations omitted)
• holding the use of force excessive when the victim’s actions could not have caused a reasonable policeman to perceive a serious threat of physical harm to himself or others

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).