Legal Opinion
Estate of Williams v. Indiana State Police Department
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 13, 2015No. 14-2523, 14-2808PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
We have consolidated for decision these two appeals, heard on the same day, that present similar issues of law relating to the reasonableness of force under the Fourth Amendment. In both cases, family members called police officers to their home because a family member had locked himself in a room of his home and was threatening suicide. The officers responded to the distress call, but in both cases the situation tragically ended with the person’s death as a result of shots fired by the officers. Although we will discuss the facts in more detail later, the basic…
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