Shawn Michael Jones, a Minor by His Father and Next Friend, Terry D. Jones, and Terry D. Jones v. Charles Webb, Individually

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that the officer was justified in pushing the arrestee to the ground and placing his knee in the arrestee’s back in order “to handcuff the [arrestee] so that he could do no harm” to the officer or to others
• defining probable cause as existing when the facts and circumstances within a police officer’s knowl- edge are sufficient to warrant a prudent person in such a belief
• “Probable cause can be found as a matter of law, however, only when the facts permit but one conclusion . . . .” (citation omitted)
• “If probable cause existed for the arrest, an action for false arrest cannot lie.”
• “It of course was clearly established in June 1992 that a police officer’s use of excessive force . . . in the course of an arrest would violate the Fourth Amendment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).