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| Feds to Review Inmate Beating Death |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/04/2002 |
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The U.S. Justice Department said recently it is considering bringing civil rights charges against three prison officers who were acquitted in state court of stomping an inmate to death in his cell. The department will look at the whole case 'to decide on whether action is warranted,' said Dan Nelson, a spokesman in Washington. Frank Valdes, a death row inmate, died in 1999 after being pulled from his cell with numerous broken bones and internal injuries. Prosecutors said he was killed to keep him from going to the news media with allegations of brutality behind bars. Timothy Thornton, 36, Charles Brown, 28, Jason Griffis, 28, were acquitted Feb. 15. Five other officers are awaiting trial, four of them on murder charges. |
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