Singleton v. City of Newburgh

How courts have described this case

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• finding a discharge of pepper spray reasonable to induce -20- No. 15-5314 Pennington v. Terry, et al. an arrestee to spit out contraband
• collecting cases in which courts have affirmed the constitutionality of mouth searches when a suspect was witnessed attempting to swallow evidence of a crime
• denying summary judgment on excessive force claim against officer who may have applied pressure to front of suspect’s neck when he had cocaine in his mouth; other uses of force including Heimlich maneuver and pepper spray were reasonable in the circumstances
• “The mere fact of other lawsuits against the City does not provide a basis for liability.”
• plaintiffs claim deemed “abandoned” and defendants’ summary judgment granted where claim was alleged in the complaint but “not raised elsewhere in the record”
• “One factor justifying the use of force is the appearance that the suspect is secreting contraband which could be used as evidence in a criminal prosecution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).