Legal Opinion
Dwain Smith v. Conway County, Arkansas
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 16, 2014No. 13-3095PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RILEY, Chief Judge.
On the morning of February 28, 2012, police officers arrested Dwain Smith on a charge of delivering a controlled substance (hydrocodone) and took him to the Conway County, Arkansas (county), jail. Later that day, a jailer, Jacob Zulpo, with the assistance of a fellow jailer, Jansen Choate, used a taser on Smith as Smith lay moaning in his bunk complaining he was in pain and could not get up. Zulpo had not received any training on the use of a taser before he tased Smith. The county jail administrator, Rick Emerson, had encouraged both Zulpo and Choate to use a taser as…
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