Legal Opinion
Wagner v. Bay City Texas
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 27, 2000No. 99-40175PublishedCited by 164 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal of a partial denial of a motion for summary judgment. The appellant police officers argue that qualified immunity precludes Mary Wagner’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims of excessive force and deliberate indifference to the need for medical attention arising from the arrest of her brother, Gilbert Gutierrez, who died in police custody. Concluding that there is no reasonable inference that the officers were objectively unreasonable, we reverse and render judgment for the defendant officers and remand for further proceedings.
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In March 1996, Gutierrez…
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