Two defendants in SF jail fight-club case plead not guilty, A San Francisco sheriff's agent and above agent pleaded not accusable Monday to accuse that they affected bastille inmates to action anniversary added for the guards'€™ entertainment.
Former Agent Scott Neu and Agent Eugene Jones remained bashful as their attorneys entered pleas on their account in San Francisco Superior Court.
Neu, 42, was the declared agitator and faces 17 bent counts, including abomination accuse of advance beneath blush of ascendancy and of authoritative threats, that backpack a absolute book of up to 10 years in accompaniment prison. Jones, 45, was answerable with two abomination counts of advance beneath blush of ascendancy and several misdemeanors, amiss by a absolute of 5 years abaft bars.
Another deputy, Clifford Chiba, is accused of two abomination counts of inflicting atrocious and abnormal abuse and one abomination calculation of breaching his official duties. He is appointed to be arraigned Tuesday.
All three defendants are chargeless on bail.
The allegations axis from two fights that took abode March 5 and 6, 2015, in County Bastille No. 4 at 850 Bryant St. Above inmates Ricardo Palikiko Garcia and Stanley Harris said the assembly had threatened them with abandon or withheld aliment to force them to appoint in fights for assembly to bet on.
Garcia said the aboriginal action had resulted in injuries to his ribs that were so aching he could not beddy-bye on his side. Despite his injuries, Jones and Neu affected the two to action afresh the next day, Garcia said.
Harris, who is overweight, said Neu would "train"€ him for fights by authoritative him exercise, in one instance banishment him to do 200 pushups in an hour. Neu aswell consistently affected Harris and added inmates to action for food, apple-pie accouterment and bedding, prosecutors say.
Neu has back been fired, and Jones was placed on contributed authoritative leave. Chiba is still on alive duty, alive in jobs that do not put him in acquaintance with inmates.
Outside court, Harry Stern, an advocate for Neu, said Commune Advocate George Gascon was alarming the case out of proportion.
"The commune advocate has absitively to could cause this affectionate of appearance and allegation this case that by all rights never should accept accomplished this array of level,"€ Stern said. "There were a brace of fights, a brace of debris and angry matches in the jail. They started out, from my understanding, out of a altercation over who was in bigger appearance and annihilation added than that. In retrospect,it wasn'€™t the best use of time and resources, but it absolutely isn'€™t a bent matter."
Max Szabo, a agent for the commune attorney, alleged Stern'€™s statements "absurd."
"The commune advocate is committed to accepting a apple-pie amends arrangement in San Francisco and one that San Franciscans can be appreciative of," he said. "This behavior threatens a apple-pie system, and I anticipate he's actual committed to authoritative abiding humans are captivated answerable for their actions."
Former Agent Scott Neu and Agent Eugene Jones remained bashful as their attorneys entered pleas on their account in San Francisco Superior Court.
Neu, 42, was the declared agitator and faces 17 bent counts, including abomination accuse of advance beneath blush of ascendancy and of authoritative threats, that backpack a absolute book of up to 10 years in accompaniment prison. Jones, 45, was answerable with two abomination counts of advance beneath blush of ascendancy and several misdemeanors, amiss by a absolute of 5 years abaft bars.
Another deputy, Clifford Chiba, is accused of two abomination counts of inflicting atrocious and abnormal abuse and one abomination calculation of breaching his official duties. He is appointed to be arraigned Tuesday.
All three defendants are chargeless on bail.
The allegations axis from two fights that took abode March 5 and 6, 2015, in County Bastille No. 4 at 850 Bryant St. Above inmates Ricardo Palikiko Garcia and Stanley Harris said the assembly had threatened them with abandon or withheld aliment to force them to appoint in fights for assembly to bet on.
Garcia said the aboriginal action had resulted in injuries to his ribs that were so aching he could not beddy-bye on his side. Despite his injuries, Jones and Neu affected the two to action afresh the next day, Garcia said.
Harris, who is overweight, said Neu would "train"€ him for fights by authoritative him exercise, in one instance banishment him to do 200 pushups in an hour. Neu aswell consistently affected Harris and added inmates to action for food, apple-pie accouterment and bedding, prosecutors say.
Neu has back been fired, and Jones was placed on contributed authoritative leave. Chiba is still on alive duty, alive in jobs that do not put him in acquaintance with inmates.
Outside court, Harry Stern, an advocate for Neu, said Commune Advocate George Gascon was alarming the case out of proportion.
"The commune advocate has absitively to could cause this affectionate of appearance and allegation this case that by all rights never should accept accomplished this array of level,"€ Stern said. "There were a brace of fights, a brace of debris and angry matches in the jail. They started out, from my understanding, out of a altercation over who was in bigger appearance and annihilation added than that. In retrospect,it wasn'€™t the best use of time and resources, but it absolutely isn'€™t a bent matter."
Max Szabo, a agent for the commune attorney, alleged Stern'€™s statements "absurd."
"The commune advocate is committed to accepting a apple-pie amends arrangement in San Francisco and one that San Franciscans can be appreciative of," he said. "This behavior threatens a apple-pie system, and I anticipate he's actual committed to authoritative abiding humans are captivated answerable for their actions."
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