United States Eleventh Circuit

Rejection of qualified immunity for police officers is reversed where injuries sustained by plaintiff while he committed attempted murder, armed robbery, and carjacking, were not the product of a violation of his constitutional rights by police.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/10/2003
• Published 04/11/2003

Judges

• TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT, WILSON and COWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey S. Weiss,Scott D. Danahy, Brown, Ward, Salzman & Weiss, P.A., Michael J. Roper, Bell, Leeper & Roper, P.A., Jack E. Holt, III, Grower, Ketcham, More, Rutherford, Noecker, Bronson, Siboni & Eide, Orlando, FL, Kathleen A.M. Krak, Donald Andrew DeBevoise, DeBevoise & Poulton, P.A., Winter Park, FL, Daniel M. Soloway, Daniel M. Soloway, P.A., Pensacola, FL, Barbara L. Wilhite, New Port Richey, FL, for Wilkes, Register, Ray White, Cannon, Fairbanks, Cooper, Savino, City of Dade City, Florida and Bob White., Matthew P. Farmer, Farmer & Fitzgerald, P.A., James A. Wardell, Suaez & Wardell, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Lumley.