Legal Opinion
Terry Eugene Sears v. Vernia Roberts
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 24, 2019No. 15-15080PublishedCited by 160 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ED CARNES, Chief Judge:
Terry Eugene Sears is a Florida inmate who claims that three correctional officers physically assaulted him and that one of them sprayed a chemical agent on him for 16 minutes after he was handcuffed and compliant. He also claims that three supervisory officers watched the attack without doing anything to intervene. This is Sears' appeal from the district court's grant of summary judgment to the correctional officers on his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 excessive force and deliberate indifference claims. The district court's misreading of our decision in O'Bryant v. Finch , 637 F.3d…
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