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(New page: In ''Scott v. Harris'' (2007),<ref>http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/05-1631.ZS.html</ref> the U.S. Supreme Court held in favor of a police officer who terminated a high speed chas...) |
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Revision as of 01:51, January 2, 2008
In Scott v. Harris (2007),[1] the U.S. Supreme Court held in favor of a police officer who terminated a high speed chase by bumping into the suspect's car, causing him to lose control and crash. The crash rendered him a quadriplegic. The Court held that the police could not be sued for taking reasonable means to stop someone who was leading the police on a high-speed chase. The Court, after reviewing a video tape of the chase and crash, rejected that plaintiff's argument that his Fourth Amendment rights against an unreasonable search and seizure.
Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the opinion for the 8-1 Court, with Justice John Paul Stevens the lone dissent.