New Hearing Ordered In Excessive Force Lawsuit
Last updated Monday, May 19, 2008 7:06 PM CDT in News
By THE MORNING NEWS
LITTLE ROCK -- The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis on Monday ordered a new hearing for a recently paroled state inmate who alleged in a lawsuit that three Pulaski County deputies assaulted him while in the county jail in 2004.
The decision reversed a ruling last year to dismiss the case because the statute of limitations had ended.
In a lawsuit filed in September, Marlon Williams claimed he was in the Pulaski County Detention Facility in June 2004 awaiting a hearing on a variety of charges -- including first-degree assault, manufacturing, delivery and possession of a controlled substance, and second-degree sexual assault -- when three jailers assaulted him.
The federal lawsuit was later dismissed for several reasons, including that it was filed after the three-year statute of limitations deadline.
In his appeal, Williams argued the three-year period should not have started with the initial assault, but at the time that a decision had been reached on the administrative grievance he filed.
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