Fontenot v. Cormier

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that arresting officer’s use of force did not violate Fourth Amendment by tackling arrestee in a manner that caused “no significant injury”— although that suspect, unlike Buehler, had a “history of violence”
• no “seizure” when police, rushing the defendant’s car with their guns drawn, order him out of the vehicle, but he flees
• no “seizure” when police, rushing the defendant’s car with their guns drawn, order him out of the vehicle, but he flees
• expectation of privacy in one’s home that was recognized in Payton v. New York, supra, 589-90, does not exist when “suspect stands at the open door of his residence or is otherwise accessible to the public”
• The deputies’ conduct in abruptly awakening the defendant in the middle of the night to ask if they could enter the residence and refusal to leave the residence thereafter constituted a “show of authority” that was unreasonable.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).