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Detainee Excessive Force Jury Instructions Reversed

Loaded on March 15, 1997 published in Prison Legal News March, 1997, page 9
Filed under: Eighth Amendment, Jail Specific, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Civil Procedure, Defenses, Jury Instructions, Qualified Immunity. Location: Illinois.
The court of appeals for the seventh circuit held that a district court erred when it instructed a jury on jail guards' good faith immunity defense. Anyone bringing an excessive use of force involving pretrial detainees to trial will find this case helpful. In 1988 Jackie Wilson was detained in ...

 

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