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Torres v. Madrid | 141 S. Ct. 989 (2021)
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects American citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures. The United States Supreme Court considered whether police officers seized a fleeing woman when they shot her, even though she got away, in the twenty twenty-one case Torres versus Madrid.
During the summer of twenty fourteen, four police officers went to an apartment building in Albuquerque, New Mexico, intending to execute a warrant for a woman accused of multiple crimes. In the parking lot, the officers spotted Roxanne Torres standing by her car. The officers knew that Torres wasn’t the woman they were looking for, but they wanted to speak with her. While they were on their way over, Torres got into her car. She was currently in the throes of methamphetamine withdrawal and was completely oblivious to the officers until one of them tugged on her car door. Convinced that the officers were carjackers, Torres stepped on the gas. Officers Janice Madrid and Richard Williamson fired thirteen shots at Torres, hitting her two times. Torres managed to get away, but not for very long. She was arrested at an Albuquerque hospital the next day.
After pleading no contest to aggravated fleeing from a law enforcement officer, among other charges, Torres filed a Section Nineteen Eighty-Three lawsuit against Officers Madrid and Williamson in federal district court. Basically, this type of lawsuit allows people to sue police officers and other state agents for civil-rights violations. Specifically, Torres claimed that the officers used excessive force by shooting her, violating her Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizures of her person. The district court entered summary judgment for the officers, and the Tenth Circuit affirmed, finding no seizure because Torres got away. Torres appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which granted cert.
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