Manslaughter charge dismissed against Oklahoma sheriff

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Manslaughter charge dismissed against Oklahoma sheriff
Updated 7:41 am CDT, Sunday, August 12, 2018

ENID, Okla. (AP) — A manslaughter charge has been dismissed against an Oklahoma sheriff for the death of an inmate who was confined in a restraining chair for more than two days.

The charge against Garfield County Sheriff Jerry Niles was dismissed Friday by a judge who ruled that prosecutors didn't show that Niles committed a crime.

Niles' daughter-in-law, former jail administrator Jennifer Niles, and jailers John Robert Markus and Shawn Galusha also face manslaughter charges in the June 2016 death of Anthony Huff.

The judge declined to dismiss charges against those three. Special prosecutor Chris Boring said he will appeal dismissal of the charge against Jerry Niles, who is on paid suspension.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Manslaughter-charge-dismissed-against-Oklahoma-13149288.php

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The victim, Anthony Huff.
Rest in Peace.

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Oklahoma Sheriff Indicted After Prisoner Dies in Restraint Chair
  JUL 28, 2017

In Garfield County, Oklahoma, Sheriff Jerry Niles and five of his subordinates were indicted on manslaughter charges this week, after a prisoner died in June when he was held in a restraint chair more than 48 hours without adequate food, water or medical care. Oklahoma’s attorney general says 58-year-old Anthony Huff was placed in a restraint chair on June 6 and found unresponsive on June 8—still bound to the chair. He’d been arrested on a public intoxication charge. Prosecutors say the jail staff failed to provide Huff his medication for heart disease, hypertension and other disorders, and failed to provide him with water every two hours as required by law.

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/7/28/headlines/oklahoma_sheriff_indicted_after_prisoner_dies_in_restraint_chair

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4 charged in jail death set for August preliminary
Cass Rains | Enid News & Eagle May 4, 2018




ENID, Okla. — Four people charged in connection with the death of a man in 2016 at Garfield County Detention Center are set for a preliminary hearing the second week of August.

Garfield County Sheriff Jerry Niles, former ail administrator Jennifer Shay Niles, jailers John Robert Markus and Shawn Caleb Galusha appeared with counsel before Associate District Judge Ryan D. Reddick Friday afternoon for a preliminary hearing conference.

They were charged in February with felony first-degree manslaughter in the June 2016 death of Anthony Dewayne Huff, who spent more than two days in a restraint chair at the jail. The sheriff also was charged with two misdemeanor counts of nepotism. They were arraigned on the charges March 23.

More:
https://www.enidnews.com/oklahoma/news/charged-in-jail-death-set-for-august-preliminary/article_f6d8d40f-b94c-5a23-8c21-5cf51f113cb0.html

[DFW]

1. Those photos are unfair and prejudicial.

Namely, they make me want to string each one of them up by their thumbs and throw curare-tipped darts at them until their smug expressions disappear.

[Biden My Time]

2. Sheriff looks like like he's on Coke

And I don't mean the soft drink!

[heaven05]

3. of course

[noneof_theabove]

4. What buck?

The current status of the pee-Resident occupying the WH is where sh!te rolls down hill from.

The sheriff is in charge! Period. Full Stop. End of Conversation.

If he did not directly order this, he knew full well it happened and as usual
dribbled out a bunch of word salad the say it is not him.

This crap has to get stopped and quickly.

VOTE THEM OUT 2018 !

[TheFrenchRazor]

5. cop thug gangsters can commit murder and get away with it. government hos will back them 100%.

[argyl]

6. So this poor guy was in effect tortured for being drunk in public?

These SOBs should be in jail even if this man had survived this ordeal. Gitmo West.

RIP, Mr. Huff.