Crookham v. Crookham

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that any act with a state of mind less than intent or criminal recklessness, such as negligence or gross negligence, does not amount to punishment
• “Punishment is punishment, and there is no reason why the term should mean two different things in the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment contexts.”
• if a person is “free to leave and seek help on his own,” he is not in custody for purposes of the DeShaney exception
• even a \gross\ error is still only an error, not an abuse of power and not a violation of due process
• paramedics can violate due process right by failing to treat arrestee’s injuries
• the plaintiff `waived [his] claim in the district court' by failing to object to the court's refusal to give his requested instructions; because the `court never instructed the jury on [that claim], . . . the jury had no opportunity to decide it'

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).