Torres v. City of Madera

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 2011-08-22

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Opinion by Judge HAWKINS; Concurrence by Judge SILER. OPINION HAWKINS, Senior Circuit Judge: While handcuffed in the back seat of a patrol car, Everardo Torres (“Everardo”) was mortally wounded when Madera City Police Officer Marcy Noriega (“Officer Noriega”) shot him in the chest with her Glock semiautomatic pistol, believing it at the time to be her Taser M26 stun gun. Everardo’s…

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