Ryburn v. Huff

How courts have described this case

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• permitting entry into a home without probable cause when there was concern about an armed student and the police faced evasive behavior upon arriving at the home
• “[J]udges should be cautious about second-guessing a police officer’s assessment, made on the scene, of the danger presented by a particular situation.”
• same, having threatened a school shooting, officers reasonably believed that pupil might have firearms hidden in his family home
• The fact that a plaintiff may ultimately be proven innocent is irrelevant to the question whether probable cause existed at the time of arrest.
• where the officers arrived at home out of concern for the son’s classmates, but entered the home out of concern for their own safety and the safety of the family
• \Since Graham we have regularly treated the reasonableness of force as a legal issue\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).