4th Amendment Case Brief Summary

Facts and Procedural History: Once the individual, Graham, realized the commencement of a low insulin is being reacted, he had the inclination to purchase an orange juice to thwart the low insulin reaction. Upon arriving the convenience store where he spotted a line of customers waiting for their turn at the checkout line. Graham rushed out of the store without paying for the content. An officer spotted the swift activity and decided to do an investigative stop and called for backup. Graham got out of the car, ran around it twice, and finally sat down on the curb, where he passed out briefly. As backup arrives, officers handcuffed Graham despite ignoring Graham’s condition. Graham filed a suit in the District Court against all respondents, …show more content…
The responding officers had objective reasonableness to use excessive force due to strong suspicion that something has happened in the convenience store based on Officer O’Connor’s witnessing Graham’s speedily act prior entering the convenience store and exiting the convenience store. In addition, Officer O’Connor saw Graham get out of the car, and ran around two times before sitting down on a curb. According to Graham, he claimed, and suffered a broken foot, cuts on his wrists, a bruised forehead, and an injured shoulder and a loud ringing in his right ear that still continues till this day. The court articulated graham’s injuries alone constitutes that his 14th amendment right was violated and physical force by Officer O’Connor was not overplayed. The court affirmed that there were no discernible injuries inflicted and that the force used good faith effort to maintain or restore order in the face of a potentially explosive.

Conclusion: The Supreme Court concluded the case to be vacated and remanded the judgement made by the Appellate Court. The court’s findings was the amount of force used by the officers was excessive and request the Appellate Court to reconsider their