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4th Circuit Clarifies Eighth Amendment Standard

Loaded on Nov. 15, 1994 published in Prison Legal News November, 1994, page 6
Filed under: Eighth Amendment, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings. Location: Virginia.
In the May, 1994 issue of PLN we reported Norman v. Taylor, 9 F.3d 1078 (4th Cir. 1994) in which the appeals court reversed the dismissal of a Virginia jail prisoner's § 1983 suit which alleged that a jail sergeant had hit him in the face and thumb with a ...

 

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