Jones v. Buchanan

Reversed and remanded by published opinion. Judge DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge DAVIS joined. Judge LUTTIG wrote a dissenting opinion.

OPINION

DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ, Circuit Judge:

This appeal arises out of an incident in which a North Carolina deputy sheriff *523knocked Edward Arthur Jones to the floor in the sheriffs office and then jumped on him, crushing Jones’s nose, lacerating his lips and nose, and bruising his ribs. Prior to the deputy’s use of force, Jones, although drunk and yelling obscenities, was unarmed and in a secured room; moreover, Jones maintains that…