Jonathan Peden v. State of Florida

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• holding that Forsyth appeals are not “an entitlement to block trial,” and an interlocutory appeal is inappropriate if it would simply delay trial
• holding that more than mere negligence is required to state a claim under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983
• holding that deadly force was not reasonable when no verbal warning was given and the suspect had his hands up telling the officer not to shoot
• holding that an officer’s actions were unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment where he “enter[ed] the dark hallway at 2:45 a.m. without identifying himself as a police officer, without shining a flashlight, and without wearing his hat” before shortly thereafter shooting the plaintiff
• holding that a plainclothes officer who fired his gun after entering a dark hallway in a private residence at 2:45 a.m. without identifying himself as police, wearing his police hat, or shining his flashlight was “more than merely negligent”
• recognizing district court’s discretion to certify appeal on qualified immunity grounds as frivolous and begin trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).