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No Immunity for Eighth Amendment Violation in Rectal Search
Loaded on April 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1997, page 14
The court of appeals for the ninth circuit reversed a jury verdict which had found prison officials had violated a prisoner's eighth amendment rights during a rectal search but that they were entitled to qualified immunity for doing so. The court held these findings were inconsistent and reversed and remanded ...
Filed under:
Searches,
Body Cavity Searches,
Eighth Amendment,
Juries,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
Arizona.
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