Monday, February 13, 2006

Alleged pervert asks for permission to subpoena media outlets

In a handwritten letter filed in U. S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri today, McDonald County inmate Jerry Don Chrisman is asking for subpoena forms for the following media outlets: KSNF, KOAM, KODE, the Neosho Daily News, McDonald County Press, and the Joplin Globe.
Chrisman wrote, "These subpoenas will allow me to provide proof of my claims," in his lawsuit against McDonald County Prosecuting Attorney Walter Geeding. He does not specify what information he would subpoena, but in his lawsuit he claims Geeding has denied him due process and is asking that actions be taken against the prosecutor.
Chrisman, 34, is scheduled to go to trial Tuesday, Feb. 28, in McDonald County Circuit Court, on four counts of promoting a sexual performance by a child, two counts of child abuse, promoting prostitution, sexual exploitation of a minor child, and four counts of statutory rape, three of them, involving children younger than 14, according to court records. A pre-trail hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.
The lawsuit against Geeding is one of two federal suits filed by Chrisman. In the other lawsuit,filed earlier this month in U. S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Chrisman claims he has been traumatized by McDonald County Sheriff Donald Schlessman and deputy Don Ruby, both of whom he accuses of keeping him in a cell with no lights, taking too long to mail his letters and sharing information from his correspondence with his lawyers with other inmates.
He is asking that Schlessman and Ruby both be fired and that each of them pay him $1 million.

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