Tom v. Voida

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1992-05-08

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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 ci…

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