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$3500 Punitive Damage Award Upheld for Dropping Shackled Prisoner
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that record evidence supported a jury verdict that two Florida state prison guards violated a prisoner's Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by using excessive force, that the guards were not entitled to qualified immunity, and that punitive damages, even without ...
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