· 8/21/2003
Sybil Hernandez v. Brett Jarman
Citations
- 340 F.3d 617
How courts have described this case
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- 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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