{"id":151,"date":"2005-12-04T11:37:33","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T15:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/12\/04\/garner-follow-up\/"},"modified":"2005-12-04T11:37:33","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T15:37:33","slug":"garner-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/12\/04\/garner-follow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Garner Follow Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1063'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Slate got to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2131373\/\">Alito-<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Garner<\/span> memo story<\/a><br \/>\non Friday night, pointing out that Alito didn&#8217;t believe that shooting<br \/>\nan unarmed fleeing suspect posed any constitutional issue:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">By a vote of 6 to 3, the court ruled in favor of Edward Garner&#8217;s<br \/>\nfather. &#8220;It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they<br \/>\nescape,&#8221; Justice Byron White wrote for the majority. Alito had argued<br \/>\nthat the court shouldn&#8217;t set a constitutional standard for police<br \/>\nshootings of fleeing suspects, questioning whether the shooting of<br \/>\nGarner counted as a &#8220;seizure&#8221; as defined by the Fourth Amendment. White<br \/>\ndismissed both ideas. &#8220;Whenever an officer restrains the freedom of a<br \/>\nperson to walk away, he has seized that person,&#8221; White wrote. &#8220;There<br \/>\ncan be no question that apprehension by the use of deadly force is a<br \/>\nseizure subject to the reasonableness requirement of the Fourth<br \/>\nAmendment.&#8221;\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate got to the Alito-Garner memo story on Friday night, pointing out that Alito didn&#8217;t believe that shooting an unarmed fleeing suspect posed any constitutional issue: By a vote of 6 to 3, the court ruled in favor of Edward Garner&#8217;s father. &#8220;It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}