AMARILLO, Texas — A Texas federal court adopted the magistrate’s recommendation to deny two correctional officers’ motion for summary judgment on a prisoner’s excessive force lawsuit. The prisoner says the two officers stood by and watched him suffer a “sadistic beating” at the hands of another officer, who gave the prisoner a traumatic brain injury. The officers are not entitled to immunity because they might have bystander liability in connection to the assault.
Read the magistrate’s report **here and read the order adopting it here.
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