James Griffiths, Individually and as Employee of the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority v. Rita Keith, Individually and as the Natural Parent of Arthur Keith and as Administrator of the Estate of Arthur Keith, Deceased
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1. Whether a police officer must wait until an armed, fleeing suspect turns and points his gun at the officer before using deadly force where, as here, the suspect refuses to comply with an officer's commands to drop his weapon, and proceeds to flee with the gun in his hand and could, at any moment, turn and fire upon the officer in a split second.
2. Whether the court of appeals violated existing Supreme Court precedent by merely citing the general rule in defining a clearly established right, and by failing to identify any case where an officer acting under similar circumstances was held to have violated the Fourth Amendment.
Question not identified.