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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
by David M. Reutter
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.
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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- News in Brief, by Roger Hummel
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Ill Treatment on Our Shores, by Anne-Marie Cusac
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- Florida Guards Murder Another Prisoner, Get Another Acquittal, by David Reutter
- No 85% on New Jersey Murder Conviction
- The Parents' Project, by Denise Johnston
- Prisoner's Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs in The United States and Canada , 2 nd Ed., by Hans Sherrer
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- Courts Retain Power To Grant TROs Under PLRA
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- Washington Prisoner Attorney Disciplined for Negligence
- USPC Reverses Stance on HIV Discrimination after Suit Filed, by Deborah M Golden
- Remand Defeats Georgia DOC's Attempted 11th Amendment Immunity Bar, by John E Dannenberg
- Texas Juvenile Jail Suicide Settles for $100,000
- BOP Policy Denying Electric Musical Instruments Upheld; Religious Exception Enjoined
- Statute of Limitation Tolled by Administrative Exhaustion
- Wisconsin DOC in Contempt for Not Collecting PLRA Fees
- Motion Accepted as Appeal Notice; Damage Award Set Off Against Costs
- New Florida Trend: Abuse in a Spray Can
- Nevada Juvenile Road Accident Kills Six, Settles for $3.5 Million
- $54,750 Damages Awarded Asthmatic Prisoner in Michigan ETS Suit, by John E Dannenberg
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- Criminal Guards in Texas
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- News in Brief
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