What does ‘reasonable’ really mean when deadly force is used? Smerconish investigates (video)

What does ‘reasonable’ really mean when deadly force is used? Smerconish investigates (video)

Smerconish examines two recent fatal shootings by federal agents and explains why prior conduct should not determine legal judgment. With CNN legal analyst Elliott Williams, he revisits the Supreme Court’s ‘objective reasonableness’ standard and the lessons of the Bernard Goetz case.


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