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· 8/21/2003

Sybil Hernandez v. Brett Jarman

Citations

  • 340 F.3d 617

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding no constitutional violation where officer shot victim after the victim rammed a fellow officer’s vehicle and appeared to be driving toward the shooting officer, despite discrepancies in the testimony about when exactly the shots were fired
  • “The reasonableness of [an officer]’s use of deadly force is judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, and not from the unknowable intentions of the victim.”

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Judges: Bowman, Bye, Ericksen

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