Parker v. Gerrish

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that there was a Fourth Amendment violation based on the use of a taser against a non-presently resisting person even though the person had harassed and resisted the officer earlier in the encounter
• finding an intoxicated driver's de minimis resistance to arrest insufficient to justify deploying a taser in order to handcuff him
• upholding jury verdict that officer used excessive force in [t]asering an arrestee who had insulted the officers but also had complied with their requests and did not resist arrest
• finding an intoxicated driver’s de minimis resistance to arrest insufficient to justify deploying a taser in order to handcuff him
• distinguishing driving while intoxicated from “an offense like robbery or assault” that “present a risk of danger to the arresting officer”
• finding use of a taser excessive when the plaintiff was defiant but offered only de minimis resistance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).