Officer Ross Allen Wooten Sex with Prisoners

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07.26.2006 - A Cleveland police officer has been indicted in connection with having sex with female prisoners, the TBI announced.

Officer Ross Allen Wooten is charged with official misconduct.

Wooten turned himself in Tuesday afternoon and made a $10,000 bond.

The probe has been ongoing since March when two female prisoners claimed he had sex with them in November.

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01.18.2007 - A Bradley County jury found a former Cleveland Police officer not guilty on one count of official misconduct on Friday. Ross Allen Wooten still faces one other trial which is scheduled in February.

It took a jury less than one-half hour to find Wooten not guilty of the one count.

Wooten was charged with two counts of official misconduct in July 2006.

“Wooten turned himself in to TBI officials on July 25. The TBI launched its case in March after two inmates complained that Wooten had engaged in sexual relations with them in November 2005,” according to a statement released by Tennessee Bureau of Investigations information officer Jennifer Johnson.

Wooten was released from the Bradley County Jail after posting a $10,000 bond.

Court officials “severed,” or separated the charges, resulting in the need for two separate trials.

Cleveland attorney Joe Hoffer represented Wooten, while assistant district attorney generals John Williams and Steven Hatchet presented the state’s case.

Judge Carroll Ross presided over the court.

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