Hyrum James Geddes v. Weber County, Utah, et al.

Mr. Geddes filed a civil action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Respondent Weber County and against the individual jailers employed by Weber County. Mr. Geddes claimed that he suffered serious injuries as a result of “objectively unreasonable force” employed by the individual jailers after custody was relinquished to and he was being detained by the Weber County Jail. (App. 36-37, 69-85.) This case presents the following issues: I. Is the test of objective reasonableness applicable to a claim of excessive force enunciated by this court in Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 576 U.S. 389 (2015) (decided under the Fourteenth Amendment) the same objective standard as the test of objective reasonableness enunciated by this court in Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989) (decided under the Fourth Amendment) as applied to the specific circumstances presented in the context of an individual being held in a detention facility? II. After this Court’s decision in Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 576 U.S. 389 (2015), do the protections afforded by the Fourth Amendment against use of objectively