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No Qualified Immunity Defense for Florida Beatings
Loaded on May 15, 2003
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2003, page 20
by David M. Reutter
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Injury -- Misc.,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Stun Guns/Tasers,
Civil Procedure,
Defenses,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
Florida.
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that prison guards at the Florida State Prison (FSP) who beat prisoner David. C. Skrtich are not entitled to dismissal. Two of the defendants, Timothy A. Thornton and Jason P. Griffis, are the same guards recently acquitted in ...
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