Byrd v. Cavenaugh

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that Georgia law authorizes an arresting officer to use no more force than is reasonably necessary under the circumstances to effect the arrest
• official’s conduct can lie so obviously at the very core of what the Fourth Amendment prohibits that conduct’s unlawfulness is readily apparent, notwithstanding lack of fact-specific case law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).