Tenth Circuit· 10/27/2009

Thomson v. Salt Lake County

Citations

584 F.3d 1304
2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 23677
2009 WL 3430758

How courts have described this case

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

holding that “[i]t was objectively reasonable for the officers to take the steps that they did to locate an armed man who was agitated and running through a neighborhood”
stating that “we adopt plaintiff’s version of facts, insofar as it is supported by the record”
acknowledging that an officer’s vehicle can inflict serious bodily harm or even death
shooting the suspect was reasonable in part because suspect had been ordered to “drop his [gun], but he did not comply with the command”
observing that an officer’s use of deadly force is reasonable only “if a reasonable officer in Defendant’s position would have had probable cause to believe that there was a threat of serious physical harm to themselves or to others.”
releasing a police dog on suspect who had \threatened his wife\ and officers \knew he was armed ... did not constitute excessive force.\

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Judges: Tymkovich, Gorsuch, Holmes

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