United States v. Brugman

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of a border patrol agent’s prior use of excessive force to prove the agent’s intent in the charged offense
• determining that the “physical force [the defen- dant] used in excess . . . was objectively unreasonable” because the subject of the use of force had been “at most passively resistant”
• affirming the conviction of a border patrol agent for violating 18 U.S.C. § 242
• “The government need only show that the victim suffered ‘some’ injury although this requires proof of more than ‘de minimis injury[.]’” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).