Ontiveros v. City of Rosenberg, Tex.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that an officer did not use excessive force even though a subsequent search of the bedroom revealed no weapons
• officer entitled to qualified immunity for shooting an unarmed man who reached into a boot for what the officers believed could be a weapon
• “Excessive force incidents are highly fact-specific and without cases squarely on point, officers receive the protection of qualified immunity.”
• “[T]his court has upheld the use of deadly force where a suspect moved out of the officer’s line of sight and could have reasonably been interpreted as reaching for a weapon.”
• officer’s use of deadly force was reasonable when a suspect moved out of the officer’s line of sight such that the officer could reasonably believe the suspect was reaching for a weapon

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).