Estate of Larsen Ex Rel. Sturdivan v. Murr

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• stating that bright-line rules do not exist for deciding whether the use of deadly force was objectively reasonable
• determining that immediacy of threat heightened where officer was aware that suspect previously “threatened violence against himself and others”
• stating that the use of force should be judged from an “on-scene perspective” (internal quotation and citation omitted)
• noting that “the knife was a large weapon with a blade over a foot in length rather than a mere pocket knife or razor blade”
• finding that a suspect over twenty-feet away from officers, even wielding a knife, is not considered an imminent threat
• finding that the district court “properly credit[ed] the facts most favorable” to the non-moving party when analyzing summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).