U.S. Sup. Ct.
12-1217

The U.S. Supreme Court granted a petition for certiorari, reversed a judgment of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and remanded for further proceedings. The court held that a California police officer was not “plainly incompetent” for purposes of qualified immunity from a §1983 civil rights suit when he concluded that he could lawfully enter a residential front yard without a warrant in hot pursuit of a fleeing misdemeanant.