131560P.pdf   04/24/2014  Cecil Edwards, Jr.  v.  Karl Byrd
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  13-1560
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Benton and Kelly, Circuit Judges] 
   Prisoner case - Civil rights. In an action alleging defendants used 
   excessive force against plaintiffs, pretrial detainees at the Faulkner 
   County, Arkansas jail, the district court did not err in denying the 
   defendants' motions for summary judgment based on qualified immunity 
   because the facts, as found by the district court for the purposes of the 
   summary judgment motion, would support a claim of excessive force in 
   violation of the Eighth Amendment; the facts as found would also support 
   plaintiffs' claim that defendants failed to protect the plaintiffs from 
   harm in violation of the Due Process Clause; however, defendant Boyd, the 
   sheriff, was not present at the jail on the date of the event in question, 
   and he was entitled to qualified immunity on plaintiffs' 
   individual-capacity excessive-force and failure-to-protect claims.