Post by Shuftin on Jan 5, 2007 10:58:54 GMT -5
1/4/07
By: Megan Trihey
BAKERSFIELD - The Sheriff's deputy whose testimony was critical in the murder case against five detention deputies says he has been harassed by other deputies so much that he can't work.
The Board of Supervisors will officially receive a claim by Deputy Brian Thomas Carr on Tuesday. A claim is the first step in the filing of a lawsuit.
Carr has testified he witnessed five detention deputies beating an inmate in the downtown jail. That inmate died, and three jailers are charged with murder in a case based in large part on Carr's testimony. The two others pleaded to a lesser charge of assault under the color of authority.
In the claim, Carr says other deputies have called him "rat" and left a block of cheese on his patrol car. He says deputies leave the room when he enters, that detention deputies have refused to help him book suspects and he gets crank calls at all hours of the day on a county telephone to which only other county employees have the number.
The claim says Carr has been repremanded for doing things other deputies routinely do without being criticized. It says his wife's car has been vandalized.
It says Carr went on stress leave in July.
The claim asks for monetary damages, but doesn't say how much. Carr is represented by Los Angeles attorney Samuel J. Wells.
www.kget.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=d936ba18-ce46-454d-bc5b-fec222b2fa72
By: Megan Trihey
BAKERSFIELD - The Sheriff's deputy whose testimony was critical in the murder case against five detention deputies says he has been harassed by other deputies so much that he can't work.
The Board of Supervisors will officially receive a claim by Deputy Brian Thomas Carr on Tuesday. A claim is the first step in the filing of a lawsuit.
Carr has testified he witnessed five detention deputies beating an inmate in the downtown jail. That inmate died, and three jailers are charged with murder in a case based in large part on Carr's testimony. The two others pleaded to a lesser charge of assault under the color of authority.
In the claim, Carr says other deputies have called him "rat" and left a block of cheese on his patrol car. He says deputies leave the room when he enters, that detention deputies have refused to help him book suspects and he gets crank calls at all hours of the day on a county telephone to which only other county employees have the number.
The claim says Carr has been repremanded for doing things other deputies routinely do without being criticized. It says his wife's car has been vandalized.
It says Carr went on stress leave in July.
The claim asks for monetary damages, but doesn't say how much. Carr is represented by Los Angeles attorney Samuel J. Wells.
www.kget.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=d936ba18-ce46-454d-bc5b-fec222b2fa72