Vencill v. Baskerville

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that courts need “not simply accept what may be a self-serving account by 11 the police officer” at summary judgment
• holding that an officer did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment when he shot an apparently injured person who was lying on the ground and was “making no threatening gestures”
• holding that an officer may have violated the Fourteenth Amendment when, after shooting the suspect multiple times at close range, the officer took “a running start” and stomped on the suspect’s head multiple times in succession
• holding that under “long-settled Fourth Amendment law,” “the use of deadly force against a non-threatening suspect is unreasonable,” including “continued force against a suspect who has been brought to the ground”
• holding “a reasonable officer would reassess the situation rather than continue shooting” if the suspect ceased to be a threat
• holding “a reasonable officer would reassess the situation rather than continue shooting” if the suspect ceased to be a threat

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).