Frederick Darnell Moore v. Mitchell Novak, Correctional Officer Craig Schmidt, Correctional Officer

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• concluding that, in the circumstances, which included the detainee’s continued struggling and attempting to get away, the application of a stun gun, taking the detainee to the floor, and holding him there were not “objectively unreasonable”
• holding that plaintiff’s Section 1983 claim that police destroyed videotape evidence was barred by Heck because such allegations “would necessar[ily] imply invalidity of subsequent convictions” (citing Hamilton v. Lyons, 74 F.3d 99, 103 (5th Cir. 1996))
• plaintiff convicted of assaulting officer was Heck-barred from bringing § 1983 claim that officer destroyed or secreted videotape of incident
• in concluding that the use of force was “objectively reasonable,” noting, inter alia, that the detainee “refus[ed] to comply with commands”

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