Putman v. Gerloff

How courts have described this case

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• holding that liability exists only if the non-intervening officer saw the alleged excessive use of force or had time to reach the offending officer
• recognizing that deputy could be held “jointly liable for failing to intervene ifa fellow officer . . , was using excessive force and otherwise was unlawfully punishing the prisoner.”
• determining that a deputy could be held “jointly liable for failing to intervene if a fellow officer…was using excessive force and otherwise was unlawfully punishing the prisoner”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).