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AnotherMcIntosh

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11. Not exactly.

Reply to pnwmom (Reply #7)

Tue May 29, 2012, 03:40 PM

May 2012

A federal appeals court in San Francisco eventually issued a split decision, finding excessive force was used, but saying the officers could not be sued because "it was not sufficiently clear" in the law at the time that what they were doing was a constitutional violation.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/29/justice/scotus-taser-shocks/index.html

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