United States v. Francis X. Livoti

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[n]o reasonable officer would use a choke hold and a carotid sleeper hold on a suspect who is both handcuffed and restrained by four other individuals”
• finding that use of a chokehold against a handcuffed, non-resistant subject was an excessive use of force
• upholding excessive force verdict where NYPD officer put victim in chokehold for one minute to render victim unconscious, and where the NYPD prohibited such chokeholds
• upholding criminal conviction for excessive force when officer put man in a choke-hold which lasted for one minute and rendered him unconscious, when the evidence showed that the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) prohibited choke-holds under any circumstances
• prosecution of former police officer for violation of decedent’s civil rights, including using a chokehold

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).