U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law
Jun. 3, 2017
Justice lost in a thicket of doctrine
Simplify, simplify. Thoreau's admonition glistens across the veneer of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent iteration of excessive force doctrine in County of Los Angeles v. Mendez.
Robert L. Bastian Jr.
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Simplify, simplify. Thoreau's admonition glistens across the veneer of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent iteration of excessive force doctrine in County of Los Angeles v. Mendez, 2017 DJDAR 4912 (May 30, 2017). It is, regrettably, a thin sheen over several layers of encrusted byzantine complexity.
The underlying facts are that Los Angeles sheriff deputies were looking for a particular parolee at large. A confidential informant told deputies he had been seen riding a bicycle in...
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