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Opinion of the Court
Filed
April 24, 2019
Case
Terry Eugene Sears v. Vernia Roberts
Case status
Decided

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ED CARNES, Chief Judge: Terry Eugene Sears is a Florida inmate who claims that three correctional officers physically assaulted him and that one of them sprayed a chemical agent on him for 16 minutes after he was handcuffed and compliant. He also claims that three supervisory officers watched the attack without doing anything to intervene. This is Sears' appeal from the district court's grant of summary judgment to the…

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