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TX7: 20 sec. Tasering in hospital to get handcuffed defendant to remove drugs from mouth was unreasonable search and seizure

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Twenty seconds of tasering defendant in the hospital to get him to spit out drugs in his mouth was an unreasonable and excessive seizure. It was so bad that the court cites Rochin, the stomach pumping case. Hereford v. State, 2009 Tex. App. LEXIS 9883 (Tex. App.—Amarillo December 30, 2009): One thousand-one, one thousand-two, one thousand-three, one thousand-four, one thousand-five, one thousand-six, one thousand-seven, one thousand-eight, one thousand-nine, one thousand-ten, one thousand-eleven, one thousand-twelve, one thousand-thirteen, one thousand-fourteen, one thousand-fifteen, one thousand-sixteen, one thousand-seventeen, one thousand-eighteen, one thousand-nineteen, one thousand-twenty. That was the amount of time Officer Arp initially tased Anthony G...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on January 06, 2010 (boomark / email).