Coffey v. Noel

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting plaintiffs argument that officer acted unreasonably in using deadly force in self-defense after not handcuffing suspect
• rejecting plaintiff's argument that officer acted unreasonably in using deadly force in self-defense after not handcuffing suspect
• affirming denial of summary judgment on qualified-immunity grounds to shooting officer in part based on disputed evidence about whether shooting victim had lunged at officer with a knife
• declining to review state law claims not coterminous with or subsumed in claim on interlocutory appeal
• providing that an officer’s “use of deadly force [i]s justified under the Fourth Amendment if a reasonable officer in [the officer’s] position would have had probable cause to believe that there was a threat of serious physical harm to themselves or to others”
• finding also relevant “whether the officers precipitated the use of deadly force by their own actions during the course of the encounter immediately prior to the shooting”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).