United States Eleventh Circuit

In a civil rights action alleging excessive force by police, summary judgment for defendant-officers is affirmed where the decedent's act of bringing a firearm to school, threatening the lives of others, and refusing to comply with officers' commands to drop the weapon were undoubtedly serious crimes, and thus the officer who shot the decedent reasonably believed he was in danger.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/04/2010
• Published 05/04/2010

Judges

• MARTIN, Circuit Judge:, Before DUBINA, Chief Judge, MARTIN and COX, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel