United States Ninth Circuit

In a civil rights lawsuit where there is no dispute that police used deadly force, a court must give the deadly force jury instruction and not the excessive force jury instruction.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/13/2001
• Decided 04/17/2001
• Published 04/17/2001

Judges

• McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  HAWKINS, McKEOWN, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Tony K. Behrens,Law Offices of Tony K. Behrens, Glendale, Arizona, for plaintiff-appellant Justin Terrance Monroe.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel P. Struck (argued) and David C. Lewis, Jones, Skelton & Hochuli, Phoenix, Arizona, for defendants-appellees City of Phoenix and Donald Sherrard.