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Paralyzed inmate shot by police asks for home detention
By timesargus.com
Published: 05/21/2015

LYNDON — A Vermont man who was paralyzed when he was shot by state police during an alleged crime spree last year has asked to be released from prison so he can live with his mother on home detention as he awaits trial.

Eric Jackson’s lawyer, defense attorney David Sleigh, filed a home detention motion Monday in Caledonia Superior Court and said the prison medical wing is not the proper place for the Lyndon man, who now must use a wheelchair.

“A leg infection threatens the amputation of one of the defendant’s feet, a threat apparently exacerbated by an inability to get necessary medical care at (the) Springfield prison where he is held,” Sleigh said in the motion.

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