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| Acquittal in excessive force case |
| By Baltimore Sun |
| Published: 04/03/2008 |
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MARYLAND - Five state correctional officers have been acquitted by an Anne Arundel County jury of criminally assaulting an inmate. Prosecutors had accused Officers Naron Dyer Sr., 28, and Antoine Fordham, 22; Sgts. Berkeley Ghee, 32, and Keith Randolph, 35; and Capt. Manuel Williams, 36, of excessively beating inmate Bradford Matthews on July 27, 2006, to "teach him a lesson and show him who's boss" when he refused to comply with orders. Matthews' injuries -- including hearing loss and two black eyes -- went beyond necessary force, prosecutor Anne Colt Leitess said. Defense attorneys argued that the injuries were the result of reasonable force used to calm an unruly inmate. They cast Matthews as a dangerous convict who made knives and was a member of a prison gang. The jury took about three hours to deliver the verdicts Tuesday night. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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