High-Speed Chase Reaches Supreme Court
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The Supreme Court finds itself smack in the middle of a big debate over high-speed chases.
Officers in Georgia were chasing a speeding Victor Harris in 2001 when a cruiser rammed Harris' Cadillac at roughly 90 miles-per-hour, sending him into an embankment and leaving him paralyzed.
Harris sued Deputy Timothy Scott for violating his civil rights by using excessive force. Scott said he was trying to end the chase before anybody got hurt. Two lower courts sided with Harris.
This will be the first time in more than 20 years that the high court considers constitutional limits on police use of deadly force to stop fleeing suspects.
Harris' lawyer argues something more serious than a traffic violation has to occur before such force is used. Scott's attorney counters he didn't use excessive force, and that Harris was driving recklessly.
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