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New hearing on excessive force lawsuit ordered Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Arkansas News Bureau 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 lawsuit, filed in September 2007, 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. |
