Barker v. Goodrich

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• analyzing the use of handcuffs on a mentally ill prisoner under a conditions-of-confinement, as well as excessive-force, rubric
• analyzing the use of handcuffs on a mentally ill prisoner under a conditions-of-confinement, as well as excessive-force, rubric
• analyzing the use of handcuffs on a mentally ill prisoner under a conditions-of-confinement, as well as excessive-force, rubric
• determining whether the defendants used excessive force by restraining the inmate in handcuffs in his cell
• denying qualified immunity where sentenced inmate was handcuffed and placed in a detention cell for twelve hours, during which time he missed a meal, was unable to sit or lie down, use the restroom, or get water from the fountain
• handcuffing nonresistant prisoner behind his back in his cell for twelve hours constituted an Eighth Amendment excessive force violation where prisoner “missed a meal and was unable to sit or lie down without pain, use restroom, or obtain water from fountain”

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