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181126P.pdf 07/18/2019 Ivan Swearingen v. Karl Judd
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 18-1126
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Davenport
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Erickson,
Circuit Judge]
Civil case - Civil rights. At the time of the police shooting in question,
it was not clearly established that a police officer was forbidden to
discharge his firearm when suddenly confronted in close quarters by a
noncompliant suspect armed with a knife, and the district court did not
err in granting the police officer's motion for summary judgment based on
qualified immunity. Judge Erickson, concurring in the judgment.