Ellison Ex Rel. Estate of Ellison v. Lesher

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that deadly force is appropriate only in response to “a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others”
• mentioning probable cause when addressing objective reasonableness but not reaching the question of whether the officer had probable cause
• mentioning probable cause when addressing objective -8- Litchfield, 689 F.3d 961, 965 (8th Cir. 2012). “But where a person ‘poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others,’ deadly force is not justified.” Ellison v. Lesher, 796 F.3d 910, 916 (8th Cir. 2015
• whether force is excessive under the Fourth Amendment requires a determination of whether or not law enforcement officers’ actions are “objectively reasonable in light of the facts and circumstances confronting them, without regard to their underlying intent or motivation”
• whether force is excessive under the Fourth Amendment requires a determination of whether or not law enforcement officers’ actions were “objectively reasonable in light of the facts and circumstances confronting them, without regard to their underlying intent or motivation.”
• whether force is excessive under the Fourth Amendment requires a determination of whether or not law enforcement officers’ actions are “objectively reasonable in light of the facts and circumstances confronting them, without regard to their underlying intent or motivation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).