Uitika, New York – UTICA, New York (AP) – The Public Prosecutor told a jury on Tuesday that three former New York State Prison Guard Deadly beating from a black -handed prisoner He participated in the act of “an unimaginable transparent brutality.”
Matthew Galiler, Nicolas Kevir and David Kingsley are accused of murder, and unintended murder was arrested first -degree at the death of Robert Brooks, who was struck by the guards at the Mari Reform Facility on December 9 partly on the camera shots. The trio was among the 10 reform officers who were charged in February of murder or for less crimes.
William Fitzpatrick, the lawyer of the Onanda Province, told the jurors in his opening statement that they would watch ills patients for the treatment of Brooks by a group of guards, and that both the defendants were involved.
“They were no longer corrections. They were a gang.” “They alternated – collectively and individually – from punching, knees, and pepper sprayed, strangled, hang it, and fill his legs.”
Brooks, 43 years old, has been serving a 12 -year prison sentence for the first -class attack since 2017 and was transferred to Marce from a close lock that night. Videos, which sparked widespread anger, show that the officers who hit him in his chest with shoes, uploaded to the neck and dropped it.
The jury’s defense attorneys have told the prosecutors that they would not be able to prove that their customers are acting with malice or corrupt indifference to human life, as the charges claim. Lawyers asked jury accurately blogging for the procedures of their customers specified on that night.
“The prosecution is trying to link Nicholas Kivir to the work of others, which indicates that he is in some way or another through the association,” said his lawyer, David Fontita.
Gallere’s lawyer, Kevin Luibrand, said that his client was charged with killing, in a large part of it, due to the restrictions of the brook legs to prevent him from kicking.
“Matthew Gallery Robert Brooks did not harm him. He did not hit him, nor did he hit him, and he did not encourage others to hit him, nor did he deprive him of medical care,” Luibrand said. “Not anything that contributed to the death of Robert Brooks.”
Fitzpatrick, a private public prosecutor, says Brooks died with a huge huge blow that broke a bone in his neck, and torn the cartilage from the thyroid gland and the bruises of many internal organs. He also died as a result of repeated restrictions on his airways, causing brain damage and suffocation of his blood.
Fitzpatrick said Bruks has been beaten three times separately upon arrival in prison, and the other is the deadly beating of the clinic that occurred on the silent camera shots.
A fourth correction officer is scheduled to be tried for second -degree intentional killing in January.
Six guards accused in February Since then, he admitted that he is guilty. Three other employees have agreed to acknowledge guilty to reduce charges and cooperate with the private public prosecutor.
Fitzbatrick also trial of guards in The deadly beating of Christ Nanoy On the first of March in another Marce prison, the medium reform facility. Ten guards were charged in April, including two deaths accused, on the death of Nanoy.
Both prisoners are about 180 miles (290 km) northwest of New York City.