Adamo v. McCorkle

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• analogizing “the eighth amendment rights of prisoners . . . to those of detainees under the 14 fourteenth amendment, to avoid the anomaly of extending greater constitutional protection to a convict than to one awaiting trial” (citations omitted)
• “However, the eighth amendment rights of prisoners are analogized to those of detainees under the fourteenth amendment, to avoid the anomaly of extending greater constitutional protection to a convict than to one awaiting trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).