Certified for Partial Publication.
JOHNSON, Acting P.J.
This case requires us to decide whether the trial court violated a defendant's right to due process of law when, at the court's direction, five sheriffs deputies wrestled the defendant to the ground, pried open his clenched fists and took his fingerprints. We conclude the use of such brutal force to compel the defendant's obedience to a court order he submit to fingerprinting...
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