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· 9/20/1994

United States v. Prevatte

Citations

  • 40 M.J. 396
  • 1994 CMA LEXIS 94
  • 1994 WL 585590

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that an officer who was driving to a site of a suspected homicide was not entitled to sovereign immunity because there was no evidence of an immediate threat to public safety
  • noting that the employment of law enforcement officers relates directly to the “Commonwealth’s interest and function . . . to protect the public safety”
  • denying immunity to a police officer who was driving to a site of a suspected homicide where there was no evidence of an immediate threat to public safety

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Cox, Crawford, Gierke, Sullivan, Wiss

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