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Fatal Gun-Taser Mixup Should Be Judged Under Reasonableness Standard

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - In a civil rights and civil procedure ruling from the 9th Circuit, Judge Hawkins finds that a deputy sheriff, who intending to deploy a Taser device holstered near his firearm drew his service weapon, and shot and killed a suspect handcuffed in the back of his car, should have his mistake adjudicated under a reasonableness standard.

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