Torres v. Madrid (U.S. Supreme Court, March 2021)
Fourth Amendment, Recent SCOTUS Cases, Supreme Court Opinions
|In a 5-3 decision, the Supreme Court held that officers who shot at a woman who was driving away had committed a “seizure” under the Fourth Amendment. The Court held that an officer’s conduct can constitute a seizure even if their use of force is from a distance, as long as the conduct involves a use of force and “objectively manifests an intent to restrain.”