Patricia Smith, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Brent Robin Smith v. James Freland Peter Schulcz and the City of Springdale, Ohio

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• noting that, based on suspect’s prior interactions with officers, fleeing suspect could have entered neighboring house hoping to take hostages
• resolving that an intended arrestee was \seized\ by means of a fatal police bullet
• indicating that a police officer’s conduct could violate a police department’s internal policy or commonly accepted police practice without violating the Constitution
• explaining that a violation of department policy standing alone does not mean that an officer has committed a constitutional violation
• finding that whether an officer “may have violated [a city’s] policies regarding police use of force” was immaterial to the qualified immunity analysis
• noting \a car can be a deadly weapon\ and holding the officer's decision to stop the car from possibly injuring others was reasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).