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Jailers in California, Georgia Acquitted of Abusing Prisoners
Loaded on March 9, 2017
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2017, page 46
Filed under:
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Stun Guns/Tasers,
Excessive Force (Wrongful Death).
Locations:
California,
Georgia.
In unrelated cases, jail guards charged with abusing prisoners were acquitted of the most serious charges filed against them in California and Georgia.
Former jail deputies Christopher Johnson and Robert Kirsh were acquitted by a federal jury on the most serious charges stemming from an assault on prisoner Charles Alonzo ...
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