Carboni v. Alfa Romeo USA

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the right against excessive use of force in prison arises under the Eighth Amendment for convicted prisoners and the Fourteenth Amendment for pretrial detainees
• explaining that while the test is not whether “force was absolutely necessary,” it still requires a showing that “force could plausibly have been thought necessary” (emphasis added) (citation omitted)
• concluding that where the detainee was attempting to pull away from jail officials, use of the “leg-sweep maneuver” to subdue the detainee was not “undertaken ... in a wanton manner, but [the officer] was acting as he was trained while attempting to gain control of [the defendant]’”’
• describing the need for use of a leg sweep to contain an inmate who was struggling against two officers as “a close case”
• no excessive force when officials performed a “leg-sweep maneuver” to subdue a non-compliant inmate
• no excessive force when officials performed a “leg-sweep maneuver” to subdue a non-compliant inmate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).