Chief’s Counsel: Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Attempts to Limit Use of Electronic Control Devices

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Chief’s Counsel: Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Attempts to Limit Use of Electronic Control Devices

Karen J. Kruger, Funk & Bolton, P.A., Baltimore, Maryland, and Immediate Past General Chair, IACP Legal Officers Section

On January 11, 2016, in Armstrong v. Village of Pinehurst, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued an opinion relating to the use of a Taser on a noncompliant but non-threatening subject who was exhibiting symptoms of a mental illness.