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112108P.pdf 05/03/2012 Justin Shekleton v. Ryan Eichenberger
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 11-2108
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, Waterloo
[PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Riley, Chief Judge, and Melloy,
Circuit Judge]
Civil case - civil rights. A reasonable police officer would not have
deployed a taser under the circumstances presented in the case (an
unarmed suspected misdemeanant, who did not resist arrest, did not run
and did not act aggressively towards the officer); defendant officer's use
of a taser under these circumstances amounted to a clearly established
constitutional violation, and the district court did not err in denying the
officer's motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity.