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152431P.pdf 08/23/2016 Leroy Duffie v. City of Lincoln
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 15-2431
U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Lincoln
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Shepherd and Kelly, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil Rights. The district court erred in granting
defendants' motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity
because the report on which the officers stopped plaintiff did not contain
information sufficient to create a reasonable suspicion that plaintiff had
or was about to commit a crime; under Nebraska law which permits a person
to carry a handgun in open view, an objectively reasonable officer could
not reliably conclude that the young man described in the incident report
to police could not legally possess a firearm; nor did the convenience
store clerk's report make out a case that the young man committed an
assault; further, whatever suspicion the officer possessed decreased when
placed in the context of his stop of plaintiff as an objectively
reasonable officer would not mistake the 58-year-old bald plaintiff for
the young man with short hair in the report; as a result, the defendant
officers involved in the stop were not entitled to qualified immunity.
Judge Shepherd, dissenting.