In re Complaint as to the Conduct of Jenkins

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• holding that the nature of the intrusion was severe where arrestee suffered broken vertebra that caused pain and immobility
• holding that the nature of the intrusion was severe where arrestee suffered broken vertebra that caused pain and immobility
• holding that circumstantial evidence created a jury question as to excessive force where, immediately after a confrontation with police, Santos’s spine was discovered to have been broken
• holding that judgment as a matter of law is appropriate only when “the evidence presented at trial permits only one reasonable conclusion”
• holding that tackling a kneeling plaintiff with enough force to cause a 27 compression fracture of his L-2 vertebra was “quite severe”
• concluding that the police officers who gently 9 shoved a suspect to the ground severely invaded the suspect’s Fourth Amendment rights because 10 he suffered a broken back and temporary immobility

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