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Ninth Circuit Defines Arrest

Ninth Circuit Defines Arrest

The plaintiff's conviction for resisting arrest precludes his § 1983 claim
for excessive force because under California law, an arrest involving
excessive force is unlawful, and the lawfulness of the arrest is an element
of the offense of resisting arrest. The force at issue here occurred ...

 

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