In the Matter of the Marriage of Chad Schaefer and Amber Lynn Schaefer v. the State of Texas

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• holding that an excessive force inquiry is a “highly fact-intensive task for which there are no per se rules”
• holding that there was a genuine dispute of material fact whether an officer correctly evaluated the dangerousness of the situation when deciding to use force
• holding that a jury could find that an officer’s belief that she was holding her Taser instead of her gun was unreasonable
• holding that qualified immunity does not apply 20 when an officer uses deadly force against a “suspect . . . already arrested, handcuffed, and in the 21 back seat of a patrol car”
• likening the accused officer’s misidentification of a gun as a taser to the officers’ misidentification of officers as suspects in Jensen and Wilkins
• likening the accused officer’s misidentification of a gun as a taser to the officers’ misidentification of officers as suspects in Jensen and Wilkins

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).