United State v. Figueroa

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the use of a stun gun to subdue a noncompliant prisoner did not violate the Eighth Amendment when the prisoner failed to show that the officers used it “maliciously and sadistically to cause harm” (citation omitted)
• using a stun gun to subdue an unruly inmate did not violate the Eighth Amendment when not used maliciously or sadistically even if other options available

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).