Carl Qualls, Administrator of the Estate of Billy Don Trull and Manual Daniel Bunch v. Jack K. Parrish

McCREE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of defendant law enforcement officers in a civil rights action. 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The district court, sitting without a jury, determined that the Sheriff of Decatur County, Jack K. Parrish, and two of his deputies, Jeffery L. Long and Jack French, did not violate plaintiffs’ 1 civil rights when, after a high-speed automobile chase, one of the deputies shot at plaintiff Bunch’s automobile and killed Trull, plaintiff Quail’s decedent. The district court, on alternative grounds, determined that defendants lawfully employed deadly…