Anna M. Krstulic Comment

ANNA M. KRSTULIC COMMENT.DOC 6/21/2008 11:30 AM America’s Most Shocking Standard: When Innocent Parties Are Injured or Killed in High-Speed Pursuits, What Police Conduct Sufficiently “Shocks the Conscience” to Allow Recovery? [Meals v. City of Memphis, 493 F.3d 720 (6th Cir. 2007)] Anna M. Krstulic* I. INTRODUCTION On October 5, 2004, in Wichita, Kansas, twenty-nine-year-old Amy Robbins was driving home from work as her husband followed in an-1other vehicle. He watched in horror as Amy proceeded through an in-tersection and a pickup truck fleeing the police slammed into her at fifty 2miles per hour. Her husband reported that he never heard any sirens 3despite the fact that his windows were open. Amy sustained severe in-4juries and died eight days later. On November 8, 2007, in Independence, Missouri, seventeen-year-old Chris Cooper was riding his bike across the street when a driver at-5tempting to escape police ran a red light and crashed into him. The 6fleeing driver did not slow down, and the police continued pursuit. Chris’s parents lived just blocks away from the accident, and by the time 7they arrived at the scene, he had already died. This was the third pur- * B.A. 1999, Benedictine College; J.D. Candidate 2009, Washburn University School of Law. I am forever grateful to my family, particularly my parents, Josip and Mary Krstulic, and my sisters, Catherine Cheshire and Carol Krstulic, for their never-ending love and support. I ...