Word of the day: Misdemeanant
As in:
"I write to express my view that the Fourth Amendment forbids an officer from discharging repeated bursts of electricity into an already handcuffed misdemeanant--who is sitting still beside a rural road and unwilling to move--simply to goad him into standing up." So begins the dissent from a non-precedential ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued yesterday.
Source: How Appealing#030233
And that’s the dissent, folks.