Government of the Virgin Islands v. Sealey

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the court could not accept defendant’s version of events when there are competing factual accounts
• relying in part on extra-record sources such as the New York Times and The Guardian in finding no qualified immunity for officer’s use of deadly force where suspect resisted arrest and ran over another officer with his vehicle
• relying in part on extra-record sources such as the New York Times and The Guardian in finding no qualified immunity for an officer’s use of deadly force where suspect resisted arrest and ran over another officer with his vehicle
• relying in part on extra-record sources such as The New York Times and The Guardian in finding no qualified immunity for an officer’s use of deadly force where suspect resisted arrest and ran over another officer with his vehicle
• All facts must be viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmovant and all justifiable inferences must be drawn in his favor.
• “When we accept the facts as we must, this case is an obvious one.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).