Eighth Circuit· 7/12/1993

Cole v. Bone

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993 F.2d 1328

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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

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