SMITH v. RAY

No. 12-1503.

781 F.3d 95 (2015)

Amanda Deanne SMITH, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Officer R.R. RAY, Defendant-Appellant, and Officer Jay Keatley, Defendant, and City of Virginia Beach; City of Virginia Beach Police Department; Alfred M. Jacocks, Jr., Chief of Police, City of Virginia Beach; Sergeant T.T. Yarbrough; Kevin Murphy, MPO; Sergeant Armand Rubbo; Sergeant Jarvis Lynch; Officer Scott Stein; Donald Autsin, MPO; Johnny Monts, MPO; James Hewlett, MPO; Tony F. Bullard, Consolidated Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: March 18, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Michael Beverly , Office of the City Attorney, Virginia Beach, Virginia, for Appellant. Darren Marshall Hart , Hart & Assoc., P.C., Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Mark D. Stiles , Christopher S. Boynton , Office of the City Attorney, Virginia Beach, Virginia, for Appellant.

Affirmed by published opinion. Chief Judge TRAXLER wrote the opinion, in which Judge GREGORY and Judge AGEE joined.


Officer R.R. Ray appeals a district court order denying his motion for summary judgment on the basis of qualified immunity concerning Amanda Smith's excessive force claim. Finding no error, we affirm.

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