Mladek v. Day

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• concluding that county sheriff wore “state hat” at time of plaintiff's arrest and subsequent detention
• finding that sheriff and sheriff's deputies acted as arms of the state in effectuating arrests and subsequent detentions
• noting that “the Eleventh Circuit made it clear that it found no distinction between [implementation of a force policy in the operation of a county jail] and the law enforcement function performed by sheriffs when they arrest citizens for violations of the law”
• “[B]ased upon the rationale of Manders, [Deputy] Day was wearing a ‘state hat’ at the time, of Mr. Mladek’s arrest and subsequent detention.”
• “The Court finds that Plaintiffs’ Eighth Amendment claims must be dismissed because Mr. Mladek was not convicted of any crime at the time that these acts about which he complains occurred.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).