A police officer whose service-issued handgun was used by his son to kill the son’s estranged girlfriend is entitled to statutory immunity, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled.
John Michael, the Chester, Pa., police officer who is the father of the man who killed the woman, was sued by her family under a state-created danger theory after her death in 2009. The district court had ruled that Michael wouldn’t be covered by statutory immunity and denied his motion for summary judgment. The Third Circuit this week reversed that decision.
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