Mead v. O'CONNOR

How courts have described this case

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• applying, in battery case brought against a police officer, an objective reasonableness test that is similar to the test found in Graham v. Connor
• “Officers, within reasonable limits, are the judges of the force necessary to enable them to make arrests or to preserve the peace.... However, it devolves upon the jury, under the evidence in the case and proper instructions of the court, to resolve these questions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).