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11th Circuit Taser Video Posted on YouTube

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWC7iSGCk-sR. Robin McDonald09-18-2008When Judge Beverly B. Martin this month dissented to a federal appeals decision in favor of a sheriff's deputy accused of civil rights violations for using a Taser on a handcuffed man, she urged that a video of the events in question be published with the opinion.The suggestion of Martin, a district court judge sitting by designation with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, went unheeded. But James V. Cook, the Tallahassee, Fla., attorney representing plaintiff Jesse Daniel Buckley, apparently took Martin at her word.On Monday Cook placed a copy of a video shot by a squad car camera on YouTube. The six-minute video can be found under the term "Buckley v. Haddock." Cook said Tuesday he is preparing a motion for an en banc rehearing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on September 18, 2008 (boomark / email).