JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Last of six former Mississippi officers who tortured two Black men sentenced; ex-officer gets about 10 years in prison.
Two former Mississippi deputies were sentenced Tuesday for breaking into a home without a warrant and torturing two Black men inside. Hunter Elward was sentenced to nearly 20 years, while Jeffrey Middleton was given 17.5 years behind bars. Errol Barnett reports.
Two former Mississippi sheriff's deputies who were members of a group calling itself "the Goon Squad" have been handed lengthy prison sentences for their part in torturing two black men. Hunter Elward, 31, was jailed for 20 years, and Jeffrey Middleton, 46, was sentenced to 17-and-a-half years on Tuesday during back-to-back proceedings at a federal court in Jackson, Mississippi, according to the US Justice Department. They were two of six officers who burst into a house in Braxton, Mississippi,...
Six former Mississippi officers are set to be a sentenced after pleading guilty to federal charges related to the racially motivated torture of two Black men.
The former officers pleaded guilty to more than a dozen federal charges related to the beating, sexual assaults of two Black men in Mississippi.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two Black men who were tortured by six Mississippi law enforcement officers called on a federal judge Monday to impose the harshest possible penalties against the disgraced former lawmen. The former law officers admitted in August to subjecting Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker to numerous acts of racially motivated, []
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG (Associated Press/Report for America) JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two Black men who were tortured by six Mississippi law enforcement officers called on a federal judge Monday to impose the harshest possible penalties against the disgraced former lawmen. The former law officers admitted in August to subjecting Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell […]
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men will be sentenced by a federal judge starting Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Tom Lee will sentence two defendants each day on
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men will be sentenced by a federal judge starting Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Tom Lee will sentence two defendants each day on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday after twice delaying []
Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men will be sentenced by a federal judge starting Tuesday
Hunter Elward, the Mississippi sheriff's deputy charged with the most egregious crimes in the racially-motivated attack, faced up to 70 years behind bars. A Mississippi judge sentenced him to 20 years in prison Tuesday.
A former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the torture of two Black men. U.S. District Judge Tom Lee sentenced Hunter Elward on Tuesday, the first of six fo