Davis v. White

Plaintiff filed suit against the City and three police officers, alleging that they beat him while he was handcuffed. A jury found for the officers. The Eighth Circuit affirmed and held that the district court did not clearly err by denying plaintiff's Batson challenge where the officers offered a race-neutral rationale that the district court found credible; the district court did not abuse its discretion by admitting hospital records that were cumulative and harmless; the district court did not err by excluding evidence of racist emails sent and received by an officer given the minimal probative value of the officer's bias and the potential unfair prejudice to the other defendant officers who were not associated with the emails; and the district court did not abuse its discretion by refusing to sanction the officers with an adverse inference instruction for spoliation of evidence. View "Davis v. White" on Justia Law