Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied September 26, 1983.
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
The principal question before us concerns the constitutionality of Tennessee's fleeing felon statute, T.C.A. § 40-808 (1975) under the Fourth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The Tennessee statute, as interpreted by the District Court and by other federal and state courts, authorizes police officers to use deadly force in order to capture unarmed suspects fleeing from...
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