Monday, June 27, 2005

Newton County officials deny everything

In their reply to Oscar Alvarez' amended lawsuit against county officials, filed today in U. S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, they denied nearly everything except that Ken Copeland is the sheriff and Ron Doerge used to be sheriff.
For the most part they either denied the allegations in Alvarez' complaint or said they didn't have enough knowledge one way or the other about them.
In his complaint, Alvarez claims former jailers Adam Babbitt and Shane Smith left his cell door unlocked and allowed other prisoners to enter his cell and beat him up.
In the response, county officials say that doing something like that would be a violation of county policy.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Go back and check Doerge's public statements to the news media especially the statements to the Joplin TV stations.