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164275P.pdf 08/28/2018 Levi Wilson v. Scott Lamp
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-4275
and No: 16-4337
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Sioux City
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Gruender, Circuit Judge, and Tunheim,
District Judge]
Civil case - Civil Rights. The police had reasonable suspicion to stop
plaintiff's truck as the stop occurred at night and they could not tell if
plaintiff's brother, a man sought on warrants, was driving or hiding in
the truck; on the facts presented, a search of plaintiff was lawful; in
making a decision as to whether an individual might be armed, the officers
could take into account plaintiff's association with a suspect they
believe is armed; here,the totality of the circumstances at the time
officers conducted plaintiff's patdown made it reasonable for the officers
to suspect that the brothers were in a common enterprise and that the
brother might be hiding in plaintiff's truck with his help; protective
sweep and search of the truck was supported by reasonable suspicion that
the brother was hiding in it; on the facts here, officers action in
continuously drawing and pointing of weapons at plaintiff and his minor
companion constituted excessive force; plaintiffs' right to be free of
this type of excessive force was clearly established at the time of the
incident; order denying officers' motion for summary judgment based on
qualified immunity on plaintiffs' claims of unreasonable search and
seizure reversed, and that portion of the order denying the officer's
motion regarding the excessive force claim is affirmed. Judge Tunheim,
concurring in the result