{"id":46395,"date":"2020-12-10T09:41:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T14:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=46395"},"modified":"2020-12-10T09:41:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T14:41:46","slug":"ca9-gratuitous-dog-bite-can-be-excessive-force-no-qi-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=46395","title":{"rendered":"CA9: Gratuitous dog bite can be excessive force; no QI here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cOur precedent clearly establishes that releasing a police dog to bite a person who neither endangers officers nor attempts to flee or resist arrest violates that person&#8217;s Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizure. \u2026 Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to Goode, Zirkle intentionally released Boda to bite a woman who posed no threat to officers and who was not fleeing or resisting arrest. We therefore conclude that the district court did not err in denying Zirkle&#8217;s motion for summary judgment on the basis of qualified immunity.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/memoranda\/2020\/12\/07\/20-55164.pdf\">Penaloza v. City of Rialto<\/a>, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 38050 (9th Cir. Dec. 7, 2020).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant didn\u2019t show a reason or justification for a different interpretation of the state constitution from the Fourth Amendment. The state supreme court has only guardedly done so, and there\u2019s no reason to do so here. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illinoiscourts.gov\/Opinions\/AppellateCourt\/2020\/3rdDistrict\/3180024.pdf\">People v. Williams<\/a>, 2020 IL App (3d) 180024, 2020 Ill. App. LEXIS 826 (Dec. 7, 2020).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur precedent clearly establishes that releasing a police dog to bite a person who neither endangers officers nor attempts to flee or resist arrest violates that person&#8217;s Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizure. \u2026 Viewing the evidence &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=46395\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,40,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force","category-qualified-immunity","category-state-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46396,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46395\/revisions\/46396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}