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8 HLRe: Off Rec. 1 (2017-2018)

handle is hein.journals/hlreoffrec8 and id is 1 raw text is: NOTE ABSOLUTELY QUALIFIED: SUPREME COURT TRANSFORMS THE DOCTRINE OF QUALIFIED IMMUNITY INTO ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY FOR POLICE OFFICERS* I. INTRODUCTION .........................................2 II. CASE RECITATION ......................................3 A. Background ...............3...........3 1. Facts of the Case ............3.........3 2. Procedural History .................. ......4 B. The Supreme Court's Reasoning ..................5 1. Per Curiam Opinion of Justices Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito and Kagan. ........................ ..........5 2. Justice Scalia's Concurring Opinion . ............7 3. Justice Sotomayor's Dissenting Opinion...............7 III. BRIEF HISTORY .................................. ......8 IV. QUALIFIED IMMIUNITY BECOmES ABSOLUTE ................9 A. Mullenix reaffirms and strengthens precedent to an unreasonable level ......... ..... ...... ........9 B. Mullenix encourages a shoot first, think never mentality for police officers ........ ............. 10 C. Unreasonable police behavior toward black communities serves as a warning of what is to come .. ............. 12 D. In order to determine the reasonableness of an officer's behavior, the Court must look beyond just the facts of the case to account for studies, statistics, and department policies............................ 13 V. CONCLUSION....................................... 13 * J.D. Candidate, University of Houston Law Center, 2018. This Case Note was selected as the best submission in the 2016 Houston Law Review Write On Competition. 1