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Pensacola Deputy Found Not Guilty in Beating of Suspect

By M. James Jenkins, Esq.

In Pensacola last week I represented a Escambia County Deputy who was charged with felony battery on a handcuffed suspect. The Pensacola News Journal reported that my 300 pound former deputy client stomped on the suspect's head while handcuffed causing severe wounds to his face, a fractured nose, and then was body slammed against a door as he was being taken out of the building he had been hiding out in. The paper pointed out there were two other deputies who testified they witnessed these acts of brutality. The paper made some reference to me persuading the jury to find reasonable doubt and the fact that the jury returned a not guilty verdict in 15 minutes. The article reads as if the jurors were either fools or I had some magic wand that I waived around the courtroom to ameliorate the facts of the case so the jury could find reasonable doubt...continue to full post

Full post as published by Florida Criminal Law Blog on April 28, 2007 (boomark / email).