{"id":50677,"date":"2021-12-08T08:29:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T13:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50677"},"modified":"2021-12-08T09:42:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:42:06","slug":"n-d-ill-evil-intent-irrelevant-in-excessive-force-case-if-it-all-still-objectively-reasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50677","title":{"rendered":"N.D.Ill.: Evil intent irrelevant in excessive force case if it all still objectively reasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cIssues of motive and intent are essentially irrelevant in [an excessive force] case. The test in an excessive force case is an objective one. Thus, \u2018[a]n officer&#8217;s evil intentions will not make a Fourth Amendment violation out of an objectively reasonable use of force; nor will an officer&#8217;s good intentions make an objective unreasonable use of force constitution.\u2019 (citation omitted)\u201d Valdez v. Lowry, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 232315 (N.D.Ill. Dec. 5, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plaintiff\u2019s false arrest claims were Heck barred. He was also convicted of the cases he sued over. Harris v. Jauregui, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 232371 (M.D.Pa. Dec. 3, 2021).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIssues of motive and intent are essentially irrelevant in [an excessive force] case. The test in an excessive force case is an objective one. Thus, \u2018[a]n officer&#8217;s evil intentions will not make a Fourth Amendment violation out of an objectively &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50677\">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":[52,126,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force","category-issue-preclusion","category-reasonableness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50681,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50677\/revisions\/50681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}