Sinclair v. City Of Des Moines

How courts have described this case

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

• holding use of deadly force was reasonable where officers searching for an assault suspect knocked on an apartment door and announced their presence, and the door opened revealing a man holding a long barrel rifle
• “[N]o constitutional or statutory right exists that would prohibit a police officer from using deadly force when faced with an apparently loaded weapon.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).