Matthew Reid Hinson v. R.A. Bias

ROSENBAUM, Circuit Judge:

For no apparent reason, Plaintiff-Appellee Matthew Hinson stabbed a man he did not know in the neck during a chance encounter at a pub. As the man laid on the ground bleeding to death, Hinson calmly walked to the parking garage, got into his truck, and began to leave. But at the garage's checkout booth, Defendants-Appellants *1108 Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Officers caught up with him.

In this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, Hinson alleges that the Officers violated his Fourth Amendment rights by employing excessive force in effecting his arrest. He also asserts that the…