United States Ninth Circuit

Reversing the district court's denial of qualified immunity for Tucson police officers for charges of unconstitutional seizure and excessive force in the use of deadly force against a man who was shot when he attacked the officers while growling and wielding a broken hockey stick during the warrantless entry into a vacant apartment because the plaintiff lacked standing to assert Fourth Amendment violations for the warrantless entry and seizure of a vacant apartment and the officers would not have known that shooting him violated a clearly established right, rendering deadly force acceptable in such situations.

Appellate Information

• Published 2017/09/15

Judges

• ROBRENO

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel