Legal Opinion
Treneshia Dukes v. Nicholas Deaton
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 26, 2017No. 15-14373PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
This appeal requires that we decide whether a police officer who threw a diversionary device, known colloquially as a “flashbang,” into a dark room occupied by two sleeping individuals, without first visually inspecting the room, is entitled to qualified immunity against a complaint of excessive force, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and to official immunity against a complaint of assault and battery. At dawn, officers of the Clayton County, Georgia, Narcotics Unit executed a search warrant for Jason Ward’s apartment. Ward and his girlfriend, Treneshia Dukes, were asleep in his…
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