Tenth Circuit· 6/12/2001

Medina v. Cram

Citations

252 F.3d 1124
2001 Colo. J. C.A.R. 2910
2001 U.S. App. LEXIS 12398
2001 WL 650578

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holding that officers did not unreasonably create need to use force by failing to take cover and instead preventing a suspect they believed to be armed from escaping
holding that officers’ “failure to take cover” after releasing a police dog was reasonable under the circumstances when the suspect “communicated that he had a gun”
holding that whether police officers asserting qualified immunity defense to Fourth Amendment claim acted reasonably is a legal determination in the absence of disputed material facts
concluding officers did not unreasonably create need to shoot armed victim by following him and attempting to stop him rather than taking cover
concluding officers did not unreasonably create need to shoot armed victim by following him and attempting to stop him rather than taking cover
observing that an officer’s conduct prior to the creation of a threat bears on the reasonableness of the force

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Judges: Tacha, Seymour, Brorby

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