Key takeaways

4th Circuit revives excessive force claim by Maryland inmate

Dispute over officers’ conduct during 2017 strip search

Summary judgment for correctional officers vacated

Case remanded for trial on prisoner’s allegations

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has revived a Maryland prisoner’s excessive force claim against two Eastern Correctional Institution officers, finding genuine disputes of material fact as to the correctional officers’ use of force on the prisoner and ordering the case to proceed to trial.

In a published opinion written by Judge DeAndrea Gist Benjamin and filed Thursday, a panel for the 4th Circuit found the difference of accounts by Edwin Escobar-Salmeron and two ECI correctional officers as to Escobar-Salmeron’s injuries following a Jun

See Full Page