Deputies acquitted of killing Georgia inmate, guilty of lesser charges
Source: Reuters
A jury acquitted two deputies of killing a Nigerian college student in a Savannah, Georgia jail cell last New Years Day, but convicted them of lesser charges, a lawyer for the dead man's family said on Friday.
Former deputies Jason Kenny and Maxine Evans were found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Matthew Ajibade, 21, who the coroner said died of blunt force trauma.
Ajibade was tasered many times while strapped in a restraint chair, the student's family attorney, Mark O'Mara, said.
Former nurse Greg Brown was also charged with involuntary manslaughter but this week Chatham County Superior Court Judge James Bass Jr. ordered the charge to be dropped.
Kenny was found guilty of cruelty to an inmate while Evans was found guilty of public records fraud and three counts of perjury for her false grand jury testimony regarding the restraint chair log, said O'Mara.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/16/us-usa-georgia-inmate-idUSKCN0SA2PR20151016
US | Fri Oct 16, 2015 5:55pm EDT
ATLANTA | BY RICH MCKAY
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Stryst
(714 posts)It's getting to a point where I don't know what to do about this, but something has to change.
Joe Chi Minh
(15,229 posts)or African American for that matter, I'd rather study in Fukushima.
damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)Who the hell do they put on these juries just as in the Kelly Thomas case? Talk about open and shut cases.