How does the doctrine of qualified immunity apply to police officers?
What will be an ideal response?
Qualified immunity protects police officers from lawsuits in cases of reasonable but mistaken judgments. According to Saucier v. Katz (2001), there is a two-pronged test to determine whether a police officer can claim qualified immunity:
Was there a constitutional violation?
Was the constitutional right at issue clearly established at the time of the alleged violation? In other words, was the constitutional right obvious to a reasonable person
In Pearson v. Callahan (2009) the Supreme Court gave the lower courts have discretion over which prong to address first.
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