Following the path blazed a few days ago but another man charged with murder, Micah Holman, John Opry, who is also accused of killing two people, has filed a lawsuit against the Jasper County Sheriff's Department and Sheriff Archie Dunn.
In the lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U. S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Opry claims his constitutional rights were violated when a disciplinary hearing tribunal found him guilty of violating jail rules and punished him by not allowing any canteen spending, personal use of telephone, visits or "out-of-cell recreation opportunity" for 30 days. Of course, Opry makes no mention in his petition of the reason he is behind bars. The 26-year-old is awaiting trial for the brutal July shooting deaths of two Sarcoxie men.
Opry says he wants damages, and wants all records related to the discipline to be removed from his file. He also asks that the sheriff "cease disciplinary action without process which is due." (Due process would be another good name for that.)
In one of last week's posts, I mentioned that Holman, who is accused of murdering Marvin and Peggy Steverson of Carthage, then burning their home to erase the evidence, is also suing the Sheriff's Department, saying deputies went through his mail.
Naturally, Holman is also seeking damages.
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