Legal Opinion
Adams v. St. Lucie County Sheriff's Department
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 15, 1992No. 91-5137PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:
In affirming the district court, we reject the appellant-deputy sheriffs’ contention that intentionally ramming the automobile of a fleeing misdemeanant, causing it to crash (killing an occupant) did not constitute a seizure under the Fourth Amendment and did not violate clearly established rights of which a deputy sheriff would have known.
*1565I. FACTS
In order to investigate reports of a petty theft, Deputy Sheriff Donnie Ingram of the St. Lucie County Sheriffs Department stopped an automobile on May 8, 1985, driven by Robert Adams, Jr. Donald De-masco Adams, Sr. was a…
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