In re Wayland

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• holding that proper focus for determining reason- ableness of force is circumstances at the moment force was used
• stating that an officer’s liability must “be determined exclusively upon an examination and weighing of the information the officers possessed immediately prior to and at the very moment they fired the fatal shots”
• affirming the entry of judgment in favor of Officer Ruffin although Ruffin was unable to confirm the nature of the weapon, which turned out to be a wooden nightstick, before using deadly force
• rejecting the “argument that, in determining reasonableness, the chain of events ought to be traced backward to the officer’s misconduct of failing to comply with the standard police procedures”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).