Estate of David E. Morgan, Jr. v. John Cook

How courts have described this case

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• highlighting that the officer there drew his pistol, pointed it at the suspect, and repeatedly ordered him to drop the knife
• determining that the plaintiff “should have been on notice” that the deadly force was about to be used as an officer slowly drew and raised his pistol
• holding the officer acted reasonably in fatally shooting a man who appeared intoxicated because he approached the officer with a knife and ignored repeated commands to drop the knife
• finding use of force justified when the officer failed to give warning because the defendant was only a few feet away from the officer
• finding the use of force justified where plaintiff was carrying a knife and “lift[ing] his foot as if to take a step in the general direction” of an officer, six to twelve feet away
• “But Morgan’s intoxication does not alter our finding that Cook’s use of deadly force was objectively reasonable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).