Graham v. Sheriff of Logan County

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the gifting of limited favors “cannot undermine the other overwhelming evidence of consent, particularly when [plaintiff] did not testify that the favors influenced her”
• holding that an Eighth Amendment excessive- force claim based on sexual abuse must involve “at least some form of coercion . . . by the prisoner’s custodians”
• explaining that a plaintiff must show under the subjective prong that the official acted with a sufficiently culpable state of mind, which turns on whether he acted “maliciously and sadistically” to cause harm, including acting without a “penological purpose.”
• finding the Wood presumption to be rebutted despite prison guard allowing inmate to use intercom and providing inmate with a candy bar and blanket
• “Sexual abuse of a prisoner by a guard is generally analyzed as an excessive-force claim.”
• “Sexual abuse of a prisoner by a guard is generally analyzed as an excessive force claim.”

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