{"id":61215,"date":"2025-06-08T18:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T23:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61215"},"modified":"2025-06-08T18:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T23:30:19","slug":"ca9-en-banc-its-settled-that-shooting-again-a-man-with-a-knife-whos-already-down-is-excessive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61215","title":{"rendered":"CA9 en banc: It&#8217;s settled that shooting again a man with a knife who&#8217;s already down is excessive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On qualified immunity, it\u2019s been settled for a decade that shooting and killing a man with a knife when he\u2019s already down for the first four shots would be excessive force under Zion v. County of Orange, 874 F.3d 1072 (9th Cir. 2017). The dissent said Zion should be overruled. <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/opinions\/2025\/06\/02\/21-55994.pdf\">Estate of Hernandez v. City of Los Angeles<\/a>, 21-55994 (9th Cir. June 2, 2025) (en banc).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The district court didn\u2019t decide qualified immunity here, but it was fully briefed and plaintiff waived response to the defense motion for summary judgment. The officers get qualified immunity here. Paz v. Hayden, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 13960 (5th Cir. June 6, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s place was searched based on a search warrant related to his activities at the Capitol on January 6th. He was found to be a felon in possession of a firearm. The pardon didn\u2019t cover that. United States v. Meteer, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 107944 (E.D. Tenn. June 6, 2025),* following United States v. Wilson, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66399 (D.D.C. Mar. 13, 2025), appeal pending, relief pending appeal denied 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 7884 (D.C. Cir. Apr. 2, 2025).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On qualified immunity, it\u2019s been settled for a decade that shooting and killing a man with a knife when he\u2019s already down for the first four shots would be excessive force under Zion v. County of Orange, 874 F.3d 1072 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61215\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61215","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=61215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61216,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61215\/revisions\/61216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}