Dunn v. Matatall

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that when officer is unsure whether suspect is armed, suspect poses greater threat to officer's safety
• noting that when officer is unsure whether suspect is armed, suspect poses greater threat to officer’s safety
• noting that the officers could have been apprehensive that the suspect had a weapon
• finding that a reasonable police officer would reasonably believe a driver evading arrest or acting erratically posed a threat until he is “out of the car and handcuffed”
• considering the fact that Brackens was a passenger in a vehicle responsible for initiating a 20-minute, high speed chase
• “Evading a police officer cannot be dismissed as a minor traffic violation . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).