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Constitutional Gut-Check: If an Officer Shoots an Individual Who Escapes, Is it a Seizure?

The Supreme Court will hear oral argument this term in Torres v. Madrid. The case raises the compelling question whether one who has been shot by a police officer has been seized for Fourth Amendment purposes if they are still able to “flee” the scene.

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