091484P.pdf   11/09/2009  Wilson Smith  v.  Officer Troy Taff
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-1484
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Melloy and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - civil rights. District court's determinations on qualified
   immunity issues were legal determinations and the court had jurisdiction
   over the defendant police officers' interlocutory appeal; at the time of the
   incident a reasonable officer would have understood that it was unlawful
   to enter a home without a warrant, absent consent or exigent
   circumstances, and the officer was not entitled to qualified immunity on
   plaintiff's claim that his Fourth Amendment rights were violated; district
   court did not err in denying officers' claims that they were entitled to
   qualified immunity on plaintiff's excessive force claim as there were
   genuine issues as to whether the officers used excessive force in violation
   of plaintiff's established Fourth Amendment rights.