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172028P.pdf   08/09/2018  Eric Wenzel  v.  Carl Storm
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-2028
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Shepherd and Erickson, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. In action alleging defendant police officer 
   used excessive force when he shot and killed plaintiffs' decedent, the 
   district court erred in denying the officer's motion for summary judgment 
   based on qualified immunity as, even accepting as true plaintiffs' version 
   of the incident, the officer's use of deadly force was reasonable under 
   the circumstances as the officer could reasonably believe the deceased 
   posed an immediate threat of serious physical harm, notwithstanding the 
   fact that the officer could see the deceased's hands were empty.