Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Lindo & Maduro, S. A. v. United States
Lindo & Maduro, S. A. v. United States, 506 U.S. 973 (1992)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1992-11-09
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- holding that where suspect was about to run over officer with his car, use of deadly force in self-defense was constitutional
- “[Regardless of what had transpired up until the shooting itself, [the suspect’s] movements gave the officer reason to believe, at that moment, that there was a threat of physical harm.”
Citator
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C. A. D. C. Cir. Certiorari denied.