Raul Jose Valencia v. Garry D. Wiggins

How courts have described this case

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• holding that hitting detainee’s head against the wall and applying chokehold was unreasonable response to detainee’s passive refusal to leave his cell
• concluding that the use of a “choke hold and other force . . . to subdue a non- resisting [pretrial detainee] and render him temporarily unconscious was unreasonable and was an excessive use of force”
• holding use of a “choke hold and other force . . . to subdue a non-resisting [detainee] and render him temporarily unconscious was unreasonable and was an excessive use of force”
• affirming denial of qualified immunity where the detainee merely asked a question before the officer repeatedly bashed his head against the cell bars and applied a chokehold that left the detainee unconscious
• affirming district court’s finding that “[defendant’s] use of the choke hold and other force used to subdue a non-resisting [plaintiff] and render him temporarily unconscious was unreasonable and was an excessive use of force”
• analyzing excessive force against pretrial detainees under the Due Process Clause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).