Cole v. Bone

How courts have described this case

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• holding that driver of truck was eventually seized when one of the shots aimed at the engine instead hit him in the forehead
• concluding that plaintiff was not seized until he was struck by officer’s bullet
• noting that the Constitution “requires only that the seizure be objectively reasonable, not that the officer pursue the most prudent course of conduct as judged by 20/20 hindsight vision.”
• holding a Fourth Amendment seizure oceurs when an officer fatally shoots a fleeing suspect
• holding an officer’s use of deadly force was not unreasonable where a semi-truck had careened through traffic at ninety miles per hour, forcing several motorists off the road, for over fifty miles
• finding shots fired at truck were not seizures because they failed to produce a stop

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).