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- From: Nigel Allen <nigel.allen@canrem.com>
- Subject: Two Deputy U.S. Marshals Indicted for Civil Rights Abuses
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- Here is a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
-
- Two Deputy U.S. Marshals Indicted for Civil Rights Abuses
- To: National Desk, Legal Writers
- Contact: Amy Casner of the U.S. Department of Justice,
- 202-514-2007
-
- WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Justice
- announced today that a federal grand jury in Oklahoma City, Okla.,
- returned a seven-count indictment against two deputy U.S. marshals
- charged with violating the civil rights of Jude Hardesty, a federal
- inmate, by allegedly assaulting Hardesty as he was being
- transported on a U.S. Marshals Service plane.
- At the same time, three individuals pleaded guilty in federal
- court to civil rights charges in connection with their roles in the
- assault.
- The indictment charged Anton Anderson with one violation of
- 18 USC, Sec. 371, conspiracy to commit an offense, and 18 USC, Sec.
- 100, making false statements, and three counts of 18 USC, Sec.
- 1512, obstruction of justice. E. Wayne Waldron, a supervisory
- deputy U.S. Marshal also on the plane, was indicted for willfully
- permitting the assault to occur.
- The indictment, announced by John R. Dunne, Assistant Attorney
- General in charge of the Civil Rights Division, alleged that on
- May 25, 1990, Anderson and other persons assaulted Hardesty
- by kicking and striking him while he was restrained with leg
- restraints, waist chains and handcuffs and in the defendants'
- custody. The indictment said Hardesty suffered bodily injury
- as a result of the assault.
- The indictment also said that Anderson and other persons agreed
- to conceal the assault by lying to federal investigators, including
- officials of the U.S. Marshals Service and the Federal Bureau of
- Investigation. In addition, the indictment alleged that Anderson
- obstructed justice in several other instances by persuading and
- intimidating other individuals in order to prevent information of
- possible federal crimes from being communicated to federal
- officials.
- Dunne said Larry G. Casey, Thomas Reed Hanna and Charles L. West
- pleaded guilty today to violations of 18 USC, Sec. 242, deprivation
- of rights under color of law. Casey and Hanna pleaded guilty to
- felony violations and west pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor
- violation. At the time of Hardesty's assault, Casey and Hanna were
- special Deputy U.S. Marshals and West was a legal technician with
- the federal Bureau of Prisons. They are awaiting sentencing.
- Casey and Hanna could be sentenced to 10 years imprisonment
- and/or fined $250,000. West could be sentenced to one year
- imprisonment and/or fined $100,000.
- This case is a result of an extensive investigation by the
- Department's Civil Rights Division, the Federal Bureau of
- Investigation and the Investigations Division of the U.S. Marshals
- Service.
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