an officer in a patrol car sees an officer on a motorcycle engaged in a high-speed pursuit, the officer in the patrol car is required to take over the pursuit. This is because an officer in a patrol car has a lower risk for injury in a high-speed pursuit than an officer on a motorcycle. When the pursuit began, traffic was “light to moderate.” The weather was clear, and the pursuit quickly lead onto a highway frontage road. I would hold that, at the start of Deputy Johnson’s pursuit, the need to join the pursuit outweighed the risk to public safety. See Wadewitz, 951 S.W.2d at 467. Once Deputy Johnson joined the pursuit, however, he had no idea why he was pursuing the fleeing vehicle other than the fact that the vehicle had been fleeing another officer. See Clark, 38 S.W.3d at 582-83 (<HOLDING>). For the entire duration of his six to seven
holding that when a states legislation is selfserving and impairs the obligations of its own contracts courts are less deferential to the states assessment of reasonableness and necessity recognizing that an award of temporary attorneys fees and costs is based on an assessment of need and ability to pay as well as the reasonableness of the fees and costs recognizing a presumption of reasonableness holding that reasonableness for qualified immunity purposes requires an objective inquiry into the totality of the circumstances holding determination of reasonableness of pursuit requires a continuing assessment of need and risk