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Florida Guards Murder Another Prisoner, Get Another Acquittal

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2002 by David Reutter published in Prison Legal News August, 2002, page 12
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Prison/Jail Murders, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Stun Guns/Tasers, Juries, Death Row. Location: Florida.
by David M. Reutter

A state jury has acquitted three Florida prison guards in the murder of death row inmate Frank Valdes. The guards, Captain Timothy Thornton, Sgt. Jason P. Griffis, and Sgt. Charles A. Brown, were exonerated of second-degree murder, conspiracy to commit aggravated battery on a prisoner, official ...

 

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