Norma Alicia Martinez Araujo v. Manuel Araujo

How courts have described this case

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• holding a gunpoint was unlawful in a felony stop where the officers had already confirmed the suspect was unarmed
• “pointing guns at persons who are compliant and present no danger is a 11 constitutional violation”
• finding excessive force during arrest on a weapons charge when officer pointed a loaded gun at compliant, unarmed suspect’s head
• “[P]ointing guns at persons who are compliant and present no danger is a constitutional violation.” (quoting Baird v. Renbarger, 576 F.3d 340, 346 (7th Cir. 2009))
• granting qualified immunity in the present case but 13 denying it moving forward
• presence of two deputies rather than six police vehicles was a distinguishing factor for clearly established law analysis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).