Legal Opinion
Browder Ex Rel. Estate of Browder v. City of Albuquerque
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided June 2, 2015No. 14-2048PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GORSUCH, Circuit Judge.
Adam Casaus was going nowhere fast. After finishing his shift at the Albuquerque police department and on no one’s business but his own, he got into his police cruiser, flipped on the emergency lights, and drove off at an average of about 66 miles an hour on city surface streets through ten different intersections over a stretch of 8.8 miles. Then he reached an eleventh intersection. The light was red. He pressed the gas pedal, ignored the light, and the result was a terrible crash. Ashley Browder died. Her sister, Lindsay, suffered grave injuries. Sergeant Ca-saus…
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