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Heriberto Rodriguez v. County of Los Angeles, 891 F.3d 776 (2018)

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Heriberto Rodriguez v. County of Los Angeles, 891 F.3d 776 (2018)
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Heriberto Rodriguez v. County of Los Angeles, 891 F.3d 776 (2018)
Effective Date
2018-05-30

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the use of electric shocks purely to inflict pain, beginning
with its denunciation of the famous “Tucker telephone,” a
device that, like the tasers in this case, was “used to
administer electrical shocks to various sensitive parts of an
inmate’s body.” Hutto v. Finney, 437 U.S. 678, 682 & n.5
(1978); see also Hudson, 503 U.S. at 14 (1992) (Blackmun,
J., concurring) (suggesting that an electric shock inflicted as
punishment would violate the Constitution); id. at 26
(Thomas, J., dissenting) (same).