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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Bowen finds in favor of the sheriff's department, sheriff and sheriff's deputy in a civil rights and excessive force action brought by family members after the decedent's death in a police car chase. The family members failed to show that the deputy violated any clearly established law by employing a PIT maneuver against the decedent's vehicle to end the chase. The deputy had a reasonable belief that the decedent posed a risk of serious harm to the public and to the deputy due to reckless driving.
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