Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

When the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do it then or you don't do it at all.