Carroll Wayne Davis v. Hardy Wayne Forrest & Larry Marcus McNabb Police Officers of the Little Rock Police Dept.

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Carroll Wayne Davis appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in a suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that two Little Rock City police officers violated his constitutional rights by beating him unnecessarily with their flashlights. He raises two issues on appeal: (1) that the District Court’s 1 instruction on liability placed an excessive burden on the plaintiff; (2) that the District Court erred in admitting certain pieces of evidence indicating that Davis had received workers’ compensation benefits for a back injury. We affirm.

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The District Court instructed…