Guthrie v. City of N.Y.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the use of mace was not malicious or sadistic where prisoner refused to comply with a direct order and remained recalcitrant
• holding that the use of mace was not malicious or sadistic where prisoner refused to comply with a direct order and remained recalcitrant
• finding that officers appropriately continued to use non-lethal force when, after being maced, inmate forced his way out of a cell and “rushed” into a hallway
• corrections officers used mace on inmate who refused to present his hands so that he could be handcuffed
• officers appropriately continued to use non-lethal force when, after being maced, inmate forced his way out of a cell and “rushed” into a hallway
• refusing an order to present hands for handcuffing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).