FREDERICK — A federal court is refusing to order a new trial for a Frederick County sheriff’s deputy cleared of liability in the stun-gun-related death of a Frederick man. The Frederick News-Post reports that U.S. District Judge William Quarles Jr. ...

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A former sheriff’s deputy is not liable for the death of a man he shocked with a stun gun as the 20-year-old lay face-down and possibly unconscious, according to a federal jury’s ruling Wednesday that said the officer used only ...

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A Baltimore jury has resumed deliberations in the federal stun-gun death trial of a former Frederick County sheriff’s deputy. The 10-member panel reconvened Wednesday morning after deliberating for about two hours Tuesday. The parents of 20-year-old Jarrel Gray are seeking ...

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A federal jury deliberated about two hours Tuesday in the wrongful-death trial of a former Frederick County sheriff’s deputy accused of using excessive force by shocking a man twice with an electric stun gun. The 10-member panel ended deliberations Tuesday ...

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A lawyer is asking a federal jury in Baltimore to find that a former Frederick County sheriff’s deputy fatally shocked a Frederick man with an electric stun gun. Plaintiffs’ attorney Gregory Lattimer gave his closing argument Tuesday in the civil ...

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The defense has rested in a federal civil trial in Baltimore stemming from a man’s death after he was shocked twice by a deputy sheriff’s electric stun gun. The defense rested Monday after calling three witnesses on behalf of former ...

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A former Frederick County sheriff’s deputy has testified in a wrongful death case that he used a stun gun on a prone and unresponsive man because he believed he posed a credible threat. The Frederick News-Post reports that former Cpl. ...

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A defense attorney has told a federal jury in Baltimore that a former Frederick County sheriff’s deputy didn’t cause the death of a young man who died shortly after he was hit by an electric stun gun. Lawyer Daniel Karp ...

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A lawyer at a federal civil trial in Baltimore is calling a former Frederick County sheriff’s deputy “sadistic” for using a stun gun to subdue an unarmed man who died shortly thereafter. Attorney Gregory Lattimer made his opening statement Tuesday ...

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