Jordan v. Austin Securities Co.

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• explaining that police reports may be admissible under MRE 803(6) or MRE 803(8) and that their contents may be plausibly admissible if based on the officer’s personal observations
• explaining that police reports may be plausibly admissible under an applicable hearsay exception but that any witness statements would constitute inadmissible secondary hearsay, absent their own applicable hearsay exception
• same, when force “was to ensure his safety and the safety of others”
• “As long as defendant can show that he had a good-faith belief that he was acting properly in using deadly force, he is entitled to the protections of governmental immunity regardless of whether he was correct in that belief.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).