The scenario unfolds multiple times on television crime dramas: Police fire at a fleeing suspect, wound him, and yet he escapes only to be arrested by the show’s end. But in a real world, legal drama, is the shooting a “seizure” under the Fourth Amendment?
“The fundamental question of what constitutes a seizure is an important question of law,” said Paul Swedlund of the Denver office of Baker Hostetler. And it is of particular importance to his client, Keith Brooks, who has raised the issue in a petition for certiorari now pending in the Supreme Court.
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