The following excerpt is from Jones v. Treubig, 963 F.3d 214 (2nd Cir. 2020):
Id . at 955 ; see also Curley v. Klem , 499 F.3d 199, 214 (3d Cir. 2007) ("At the risk of understating the challenges inherent in a qualified immunity analysis, we think the most helpful approach is to consider the constitutional question as being whether the officer made a reasonable mistake of fact, while the qualified immunity question is whether the officer was reasonably mistaken about the state of the law.").
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