Legal Opinion
Altony Brooks v. Captain Jacumin
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 10, 2019No. 17-7261; 17-7448PublishedCited by 235 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAMELA HARRIS, Circuit Judge:
A prison official deployed a taser three times against Altony Brooks when Brooks refused to hold still for an identification photograph. Brooks filed an Eighth Amendment excessive force suit, and the district court granted summary judgment against him, finding it beyond genuine dispute that the officer had applied force in a good faith effort to obtain Brooks's photograph.
We disagree. The critical Eighth Amendment question in this case is one of motive: whether the corrections officer shocked Brooks three times "in a good faith effort to maintain or restore…
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