Legal Opinion
Henderson v. City of Simi Valley
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 24, 2002No. 01-55304PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RAWLINSON, Circuit Judge.
It is a sad state of affairs when police officers must stand between a mother and her minor daughter to keep the peace. The aftermath of such a situation brings this case before us. We must decide whether the defendant police officers violated the mother’s constitutional rights in their efforts to keep the peace, and whether they used excessive force in the process. We agree with the district court that the police officer’s entry into the residence did not run afoul of the Fourth Amendment. The district court reached its conclusion on the Fourth Amendment issue by…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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- Johnson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
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3Cited by35 opinions
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