Opinion · Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Carrington v. City of Lufkin

35 F.3d 562

Type
Opinion
Court
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1994-08-31
Topic
litigation

How later courts describe this case

  • finding that banging a person’s head into a car and dropping them to the ground when they posed no threat would be “an objectively unrea sonable use of force clearly excessive to the need”

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35 F.3d 562

Carrington
v.
City of Lufkin*

NO. 94-40139

United States Court of Appeals,
Fifth Circuit.

Aug 31, 1994

1

Appeal From: E.D.Tex.

2

AFFIRMED.

*

Fed.R.App.P. 34(a); 5th Cir.R. 34.2