Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Don't Taze me, Bro! VIII


Hello again, dear readers;


Well I got my brief written and will be going to Austin to file it tomorrow. Thank goodness, I got that done. I then leave at 2:30 a.m. Friday morning to drive to Plano for a seminar on post-conviction writs (zzzzzzzzzz) So I will try to get a lot of posts in tonight and tomorrow because I will be outta pocket again until Saturday evening.


So let's get busy:


O.C. Inmate Dies After Scuffle With Deputies


SANTA ANA The Orange County District Attorney's Office Wednesday was investigating a deadly altercation between sheriff's deputies and an inmate. Construction worker Jason Jesus Gomez, 35, of Anaheim, went into a coma after being restrained and stunned with a Taser at the Orange County jail's Intake-Release Center on March 25. He died April 1.


Gomez, who has a lengthy criminal record, allegedly grabbed a nurse's arm when she tried to pass medication through an opening into his cell. Gomez turned himself into the jail on March 19 to serve a 90-day sentence for violating his probation on a marijuana charge.


The District Attorney's Office and Sheriff's Department are withholding a confidential memo regarding the incident, The Orange County Register reported. In the memo, Sheriff Jack Anderson notified supervisors that, in addition to the district attorney's investigation, he is hiring private consultant Michael Gennaco to look into the incident, the newspaper reported.