Darryl Pruitt v. The City of Montgomery, Alabama

How courts have described this case

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• shooting an unarmed burglary suspect who posed no risk of harm to police or others was unconstitutional
• “[I]t is clear that the rationale of Hudson [v. Palmer, 468 U.S. 517 (1984),] and Parratt does not apply to alleged violations of substan- tive constitutional rights, such as the Fourth Amendment rights implicated here.”
• use of deadly force was unconstitutional because there was no evidence officer believed suspect was a threat to others or himself, and there was no evidence indicating suspect committed crime involving infliction or threatened infliction of serious harm

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).