McCullough Ex Rel. McCullough v. Antolini

How courts have described this case

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• holding that sheriff’s deputies reasonably used deadly force against a suspect who, after a high-speed chase, repeatedly refused to show his hands or respond to officers, revved his engine, and then drove his truck toward a deputy standing nearby in a parking lot
• noting that “facts, as accepted at the summary judgment stage of the proceedings, may not be the actual facts of the case” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• officers’ use of deadly force not unreasonable after suspect drove in threatening manner even though original traffic stop was only for excessive window tint
• “As this Court has repeatedly stressed, the facts, as accepted at the summary judgment stage of the proceedings, may not be the actual facts of the case.”
• “[McCullough] drove the truck towards Antolini’s cruiser. Antolini had to quickly jump onto the hood of his police cruiser in order to avoid being hit by McCullough’s truck.”
• “in light of the deference we afford the split-second police judgments in the field . . . [the officers] had powerful reason to believe that the use of deadly force was necessary to prevent escape”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).