Prevailed in Claims Filed Against a Sheriff’s Department

Prevailed on summary judgment, as well as at the Ninth Circuit, on claims filed against a Sheriff’s Department and two deputies for use of deadly force. Deputies shot at plaintiff when he refused to obey commands to stop and drop a three foot long metal sword which he had been carrying throughout a residential neighborhood. Both courts held that deadly force was appropriate even where there were no identified third parties to whom the suspect posed a serious threat of harm.