Simms Oil Co. v. Wolfe

How courts have described this case

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• holding that officials are \entitled to qualified immunity [when] their decision was reasonable even if mistaken\ (emphasis in original)
• holding that officials are “entitled to qualified immunity [when] their decision was reasonable even if mistaken” (emphasis in original)
• holding that officers’ mistake in forcing innocent suspects to the floor at gunpoint could be deemed excessive
• holding that “it is for the trier of fact to determine, based on the credibility of the evidence before it, at what point the officers knew or reasonably should have known” of their mistake
• holding that officers would not be entitled to qualified immunity for forcing innocent bystanders to floor at gunpoint during drug raid if jury found that officers knew “they were in the wrong residence and . . . no threat of danger was involved”
• observing that “many times the jury becomes the final arbiter of [defendants’] claim of immunity, ■ since the legal question of immunity is completely dependent upon which view of the facts is accepted by the jury”

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