Their testimony, as well as that of a photojournalist, came at what was supposed to be a sentencing for a man who pleaded guilty to assault.
was scheduled to take place just hours later. They were there to share their stories with the court, in front the man who prosecutors said had attacked them.
But in an unusual twist, court adjourned Thursday without a prison term for Denney. U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss said that Denney, in a recent court filing, had made statements that were inconsistent with his guilty plea. Moss ordered the defense and prosecution to file a joint status report by July 29 to help determine whether he should hold an evidentiary hearing to revisit the facts of the case.
The sergeant said he distinctly remembered that Denney intentionally struck him with a pipe, and that the moment “unfortunately plays over and over in my mind.” “I was dragged from the front of the police line, pulled into the crowd, and violently beaten and electrocuted with a stun gun,” he said. “I was eventually dragged to the police line by demonstrators who intervened on my behalf. It is likely that without the intervention of those demonstrators, I would have lost my life.”
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