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Title: Tom v. Voida
Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Release Date : January 08, 1992
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 60 KB

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ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge. This case began when a police officer benevolently approached an eighteen-year-old whom she did not suspect of any wrongdoing. For various reasons, this innocent encounter progressively escalated into a leisurely pursuit on foot, a rough-and-tumble chase, an attempted handcuffing, a violent physical struggle, another chase, another violent struggle, and ultimately a fatal shooting of the citizen. The question is whether the circumstances surrounding the escalation to violence give rise to a Â§ 1983 suit on behalf of the decedents estate. The end result of this encounter was undeniably tragic; a citizen who was initially suspected of no crime was killed. Analyzing the encounter step by step, however, we conclude that the victims actions, not the officers reactions, precipitated every step of the escalation to violence; the plaintiff has not adduced any evidence to indicate that the police officer acted impermissibly at any point. Accordingly, we affirm the district courts grant of summary judgment to the officer and to the other defendants.