Legal Opinion
Tom v. Voida
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 8, 1992No. 91-2293PublishedCited by 115 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.
This case began when a police officer benevolently approached an eighteen-year-old whom she did not suspect of any wrongdoing. For various reasons, this innocent encounter progressively escalated into a leisurely pursuit on foot, a rough- and-tumble chase, an attempted handcuffing, a violent physical struggle, another chase, another violent struggle, and ultimately a fatal shooting of the citizen. The question is whether the circumstances surrounding the escalation to violence give rise to a § 1983 suit on behalf of the decedent’s estate. The end result of this…
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