One Taser Too Many: Detainee’s Death Actionable
Author: Fred Cohen.
Source: Volume 21, Number 06, March/April 2020 , pp.89-89(1)
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Abstract:
In Piazza v. Jefferson Co., Alabama, 923 F.3d 947 (11th Cir. 2019), the court held that a jail deputy used excessive force when he shocked a pretrial detainee twice causing cardiac arrest and death. The decedent, Hinkle, suffered with alcoholism, heart disease and depression. Notable in this decision (by a conservative judge) is its reliance on Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 135 S. Ct. 2466 (2015) and the liberalization of constitutional use of force doctrine it espoused as it impacts pretrial detainees.Keywords: Use of Force; Piazza v. Jefferson Co., Alabama; Kingsley v. Hendrickson
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