James Tracey Miller v. Clark County Edward J. Bylsma, in His Capacity as a Police Officer for Clark County and as an Individual

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 2003-08-21

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GOULD, Circuit Judge. We consider whether a sheriffs deputy violated a criminal suspect’s Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizures by ordering a trained police dog to “bite and hold” the suspect until officers arrived on the scene less than a minute later. Because we conclude that the officer’s use of the dog here did not violate the suspect’s Fourth Amendments…

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