Irene Reese, Etc. v. Steve Anderson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Garner did not prohibit conduct where facts indicated that an officer reasonably perceived a threat from a non-compliant suspect after a car chase
• explaining that the three-part test from Ontiveros that the majority opinion references was created to implement Graham
• highlighting that it is irrelevant that an individual is unarmed if the officer has a reasonably belief that the individual had a weapon
• finding that police did not use excessive force when a decedent repeatedly refused to keep hands raised and appeared to be reaching for an object, despite the “fact that [the decedent] was actually unarmed”
• upholding deadly force when the suspect repeatedly refused to keep hands raised and appeared to reach for an object
• upholding dead- ly force when the suspect repeatedly refused to keep hands raised and appeared to be reaching for an object

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).