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Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Fifth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Texas Sheriff Who Rehired Abusive Jailer Who in Turn Again Abused a Detainee by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 13, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that by rehiring a jailer who previously abused detainees at the …
Brief • 2022
Filed under: Excessive Force, Restraints
Nelson v. Frazier, MO, Complaint, Excessive Force, 2022 2316-CV05188 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI AT KANSAS CITY MACK C. NELSON, c/o JPLaw 1301 Oak Street, Suite 605 Kansas City, Missouri 64106 PLAINTIFF, v. P.O. Frazier -Badge# 50085 c/oKCMOPD 1125 Locust Kansas City, Missouri 65106 P.O. Surges -Badge …
Publication • 2022
Filed under: Excessive Force
Past-Act Evidence in Excessive Force Litigation 2022 PAST-ACTS EVIDENCE IN EXCESSIVE FORCE LITIGATION JAMES STONE* ABSTRACT Myriad obstacles prevent victims of police violence from vindicating civil claims against the officers who have harmed them and the cities which have failed them. Though these plaintiffs face legal hurdles even getting into …
Article • May 31, 2022
Mentally Ill Detainee Paralyzed in Brutal New Jersey Jail Beating Files Suit by Edward Lyon By Ed Lyon A lawsuit was reportedly filed in New Jersey Superior Court for Essex County on April 26, 2022, on behalf of a mentally ill man left paralyzed from a brutal beating he suffered …
Four Florida Guards Charged in Fatal Beating of Elderly, Mentally Ill State Prisoner by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott On April 29, 2022, nearly ten weeks after the death in transport of an elderly and mentally ill state prisoner, a fourth guard with the state Department of Corrections …
California Jail Guard Criminally Charged for Assaulting Detainee with Scalding Water by Edward Lyon By Ed Lyon A Sheriff’s Department deputy in California’s Orange County has forfeited a 20-plus-year law enforcement career by assaulting a mentally ill detainee at the county lockup. The deputy, Guadalupe Ortiz, 47, was fired on …
Brief • May 17, 2022
Fordley v. Lizarraga, CA, Settlement, Excessive Force, 2022 Page 1 of 4 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE I. PARTIES This Settlement Agreement and Release (Agreement) concerns JOHN FREDRICK FORD LEY (Plaintiff) and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) on behalf of Defendants Watson, Garcia, and Winkfield. Plaintiff, CDCR, and …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
$8.5 Million Paid by Pennsylvania DOC for Death of Asthmatic Prisoner Improperly Pepper-Sprayed by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 18, 2021, a federal court in Pennsylvania approved an $8.5 million settlement reached the prior month between the state Department of Corrections (DOC) and the family of an asthmatic …
Brief • April 14, 2022
Canter v. Santana, MD, Complaint, Excessive Force, 2022 Case Case8:19-cv-02395-JKB 8:19-cv-02395-JKB Document Document 63-1 72 Filed Filed 04/14/23 08/31/22 Page Page11ofof26 26 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND NORTHERN DIVISION AMBER M. CANTER c/o Murphy, Falcon & Murphy, P.A. 1 South Street, 30th Floor Baltimore, …
Brief • April 14, 2022
Smith v. City of Greensboro, NC, Settlement Agreement, Excessive Deadly Force, 2022 Exhibit A Case 1:19-cv-00386-LCB-JLW Document 224-1 Filed 04/14/22 Page 1 of 36 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS This Settlement Agreement and Release of All Claims (the “Agreement”) is made and entered into by and between Mary …
Brief • April 13, 2022
Smallwood v. Williams, IN, Brief of Amici Curiae, Excessive Force, 2022 Case: 21-3047 Document: 25 Filed: 04/13/2022 Pages: 35 No. 21-3047 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT HOWARD SMALLWOOD, v. Plaintiff-Appellant, DON WILLIAMS, ET AL., Defendants-Appellees. On Appeal from the United States District Court for …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
$325,000 to Detainee Assaulted at East Texas Jail, 90 Days to Former Deputy Who Beat Him While Restrained in Wheelchair by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On February 24, 2022, a former sheriff’s deputy in Harrison County, Texas, was sentenced for savagely beating a restrained detainee at the …
Deaths and Violence Mount at Overcrowded Alabama Prisons While Parole Rate Hits New Low by Kevin Bliss, Jo Ellen Nott by Kevin Bliss and Jo Ellen Nott On February 5, 2022, the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a nine-year sentence had been handed down to the last of four …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
$199,000 Awarded to California Detainee Assaulted by Santa Clara County Jail Guard by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 13, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California awarded a former Santa Clara County pretrial detainee $11,000 in damages for injuries received when he was assaulted …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
$325,000 Paid by Colorado County to Jail Detainee Brutalized by Guards Equipped with Controversial Training by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On October 28, 2021, a Colorado man dismissed his suit against Weld County after agreeing to accept a $325,000 settlement for injuries allegedly inflicted on him by guards at …
Brief • March 30, 2022
Filed under: Excessive Force
Bell v. Williams, CA, Verdict Form, Excessive Force, 2022 Case 3:18-cv-01245-SI Document 228 Filed 03/30/22 Page 1 of 4 i 1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 VINCENT KEITH BELL, Plaintiff, 8 9 10 11 ~ t:·::s E 12 u0 ~ ---~ …
Teen Who Murdered Out of Jealousy Killed in Exercise Yard of Northern California Prison by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott Nineteen-year-old Michael Hastey, sentenced in June 2021 to life with possibility of parole for murdering a romantic rival two years before in Trinity County, was killed by two …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Former Florida Prison Guard Sentenced for Conspiracy to Assault Youthful Offenders by On September 8, 2021, a former guard with the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) was sentenced to 33 months in prison and two years of supervised release for “conspiring to assault youthful offender inmates at the South Florida …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
$638,250 Judgment Against Georgia Jail Guard Who Orchestrated Prisoner’s Beating by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On November 9, 2021, a federal judge ordered a former guard to pay $638,250 to a prisoner whose beating by fellow prisoners the guard orchestrated at the Newton County Jail in Covington, Georgia, in …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
$21,525 Awarded by Federal Court to Indiana Prisoner Subjected to Battery by Guard by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A federal district court in Indiana awarded $21,525 to a prisoner on May 30, 2021, after granting partial summary judgment in a civil rights action he filed alleging battery by …
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