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112091P.pdf   07/27/2012  Norman Carpenter  v.  Deputy Harold Gage
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-2091
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas - Fayetteville   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Smith and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - civil rights. A reasonable police officer could have believed that exigent circumstances justified entering plaintiff's home without a warrant, and the district court did not err in dismissing plaintiff's claim alleging an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment; officers had probable cause to arrest plaintiff based on dispatcher's report that he had assaulted the first responders to a possible medical emergency in the home; force used to subdue and arrest plaintiff was not unreasonable under the circumstances, and the police defendants were entitled to qualified immunity on his excessive force claim; officers were not deliberately indifferent to plaintiff's medical needs as there was insufficient evidence to show that his need for medical treatment was so obvious that they exhibited deliberate indifference by taking him to jail; as the individual officers had not violated the Constitution, the sheriff and county could not be liable for failure to train. Judge Smith, concurring in part and dissenting in part.