United States Ninth Circuit

An FBI sniper is not entitled to qualified immunity from state criminal prosecution when executing unconstitutional rules of engagement to shoot an armed suspect.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/20/2000
• Decided 06/05/2001
• Published 06/05/2001

Judges

• Before:  SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, and HUG, KOZINSKI, RYMER, KLEINFELD, HAWKINS, THOMAS, SILVERMAN, GRABER, W. FLETCHER and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen Yagman, Special Prosecutor for State of Idaho, on the brief and argued, Marion R. Yagman, Special Deputy Prosecutor, Joseph Reichmann, Special Deputy Prosecutor, Kathryn S. Bloomfield, Special Deputy Prosecutor, on the brief, Venice Beach CA, Ramsey Clark, Special Deputy Prosecutor, New York, NY, argued, for plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Adam S. Hoffinger, Earl J. Silbert, Piper & Marbury, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellee., Seth Waxman, Acting United States Solicitor General, Washington, D.C., for United States of America, as amicus curiae for defendant-appellee., George Culvahouse, O'Melveny & Myers, Washington, D.C., Griffin B. Bell, Benjamin Civiletti, William Barr, and William Webster, as amici curiae for defendant-appellee.