Willie Sevier v. City Of Lawrence

How courts have described this case

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

• “reckless or deliberate conduct during the seizure unreasonably created the need to use such force.”
• deadly force is justified if a reasonable officer would have probable cause to believe that there was a threat of serious physical harm to themselves or others
• “The reasonableness of Defendants’ actions depends . . . on whether the officers were in danger at the precise moment that they used force . . . .”
• “The reasonableness of Defendants’ actions depends . . . on whether the officers were in danger at the precise moment that they used force . . . .”
• “The reasonableness of Defendants’ actions depends both on whether the officers were in danger at the precise moment that they used force and on whether Defendants’ own reckless or deliberate conduct during the seizure unreasonably created the need to use such force.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).