What is the test for determining whether a reasonable person would have understood that the actions of a defendant were unlawful?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Barnes v. Furman, 14-581 (2nd Cir. 2015):
as whether a reasonable person, acting under the circumstances the[n] confronting a defendant, would have understood that his actions were unlawful." Ford v. McGinnis, 352 F.3d 582, 596-97 (2d Cir. 2003) (internal quotation marks omitted).
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