Abstract
The Supreme Court of Virginia recently decided a significant case involving an all-too-common circumstance: a police officer's use of deadly force against a person suffering a mental health crisis. The case was Colas v. Tyree and the court was bitterly divided, with four justice finding in favor of the officer and three justices siding with the defendant, Jeffrey Tyree. There is much that could be said about law and policy in this area, but here I would like to focus on the role that Virginia evidence law played--or perhaps did not play--in the court's majority opinion. ...
Recommended Citation
John F. Preis,
The Role of Virginia Law in Colas v. Tyree,
57
U. Rich. L. Rev.
141
(2023).
Available at:
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/lawreview/vol57/iss5/6
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