United States Fourth Circuit

In an action alleging that defendant-police officers' unconstitutionally employed deadly force against plaintiff, the denial of defendants' motion for summary judgement, based on qualified immunity, is reversed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/03/2005
• Published 01/03/2005

Judges

• Before WILKINS, Chief Judge, MOTZ, Circuit Judge, and HUDSON, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Karen June Kruger, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellants. John J. Connolly, Murphy & Shaffer, L.L.C., Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees. ON BRIEF:  J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, Michael D. Berman, Deputy Chief of Litigation, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellants. William J. Murphy, Murphy & Shaffer, L.L.C., Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.