Patrick Neal Nerren v. Livingston Police Department Billy Ray Nelson, Sheriff and Bob Key, and Matthew Parrish, and Robert Alston

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• inferring that law enforcement knew of risk from combination of potential trauma, complaints of pain, and abrasions
• holding that pro se pleadings should be liberally construed
• noting that the court liberally construes the briefing of pro se litigants
• finding deliberate indifference because officers “turned a deaf ear” to an inmate’s requests for medical attention
• cases following Valencia and applying Eighth Amendment standards to excessive force claims of arrestees and pretrial detainees
• “[W]e make explicit that which was heretofore either implicit or taken for granted in our case law: An arrestee's complaint for denial of substantive due process and a pretrial detainee's complaint for denial of substantive due process are evaluated under the same standards.”

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