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161183P.pdf 05/05/2017 Kimberly Boude v. Michael Heady
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-1183
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Wollman, Circuit
Judge]
Civil case - Civil rights. It was reasonable for the defendant police
officer to believe that plaintiff was reaching for the gear shift lever in
her car in an attempt to flee while she was in an impaired state, and his
action in removing her from SUV in order to restrain her and prevent her
from further non-compliance or flight was objectively reasonable;
defendant was also entitled to official immunity on plaintiff's negligence
and battery claims.