Phillip Cordell v. Glen McKinney

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that the officer was “aggressive” to the prisoner before the use of force and remained “agitated” afterward
• noting that the objective component was satisfied where the prisoner suffered “rather significant injuries”
• explaining that malicious intent could be inferred from facts showing that a prison official slammed a handcuffed inmate against the wall in a hallway where the only other people present were two other correctional officers
• discussing how the presence of other officials was a factor that rendered the defendant officer’s use of force unjustifiable
• “[P]rison officials may use appropriate force to regain control of an aggressive inmate.”
• “[t]he subjective component focuses on the state of mind of the prison officials”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).