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Criminal

Dec. 15, 2004

Justices Find Police Officer Immune From Suit for Wounding Fleeing Felon

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday summarily reversed the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a police excessive-force case, but it also let stand two decisions in which the circuit overturned the murder convictions of two California men.

By David F. Pike
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday summarily reversed the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a police excessive-force case, but it also let stand...

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