Ramirez v. Knoulton

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an officer was entitled to qualified immunity where facts indicated that a suspect was \defiant and threatening\
• holding that officer had “probable cause to believe that the suspect pose[d] a threat of serious physical harm” when the suspect was holding a handgun, even though the suspect never pointed it at the officer
• finding that the parties did not dispute the facts and that the only question was whether the officer acted reasonably
• holding there was no excessive force when officers shot suspect who was mentally unstable, armed, and moving his hands in a threatening manner
• holding there was no excessive force when officers shot suspect who was mentally unstable, armed, and moving his hands in a threatening manner
• holding deadly force to be permissible when perceived threat of harm is severe even when officer did not attempt to use non-deadly force first

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).