Greenidge v. Ruffin

How courts have described this case

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

• holding officer’s failure to follow standard arrest procedures is not relevant to whether the officer acted reasonably in using force
• rejecting arguments that an officer’s “misconduct of failing to comply with 12 the standard police procedures” factored into the reasonableness inquiry
• affirming judgment for officer although officer was unable to confirm the nature of the weapon at issue, which turned out to be a wooden nightstick, before using deadly force
• violations of procedure for nighttime prostitution arrests created more dangerous situation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).