Legal Opinion
Curley v. Klem
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 2, 2002No. 01-1093PublishedCited by 302 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
FUENTES, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a grant of summary judgment dismissing plaintiffs complaint on the ground that the defendant was shielded from liability by the doctrine of qualified immunity. The defendant, Ronald Klem, a New Jersey State Trooper, shot and seriously injured Corvet Cur-ley, a Port Authority Police Officer, when he mistook Curley for an armed criminal suspect. Klem had been chasing a “tall black male” who had fled in a car after *274murdering a police officer. The chase ended on the George Washington Bridge where, after colliding with another…
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