Oakland, a null trial was declared Monday at the trial of a Women’s prison guard of Dublin FCI accused of sexually taking advantage of inmates at the facilities now unleashed, after the jurors could in a verdict.
The deliberations were canceled a week after the jury members began to deliberate the fate of Darrell Smith, who faced 15 positions of sexual abuse and depravation of rights voting since their years working in the prison full of scandals.
Smith represented the last eight guards and prison executives to face the trial in an expanding investigation caused by the concerns that the installation was governed by an alleged “rape club” that terrified the inmates for years. The prosecutors secured the statements of guilt or convictions in the trial against the other seven prison guards and the leaders accused of sexual abuse in the installation, including the former prison director, Ray J. García, and the chaplain on his part, James Theodore.
In the case of Smith, prosecutors argued that reputation as “Dirty D -Smith” went up to a campaign to manipulate and sexually abuse the inmates under their surveillance, often caughting women in their cells or cleaning cabinets and while children in the manner used white while the prosecutors were based on the testimony of women and prosecutors And we see that the prosecutors and we see that women fall and we see women.
“If you join your stories, what you have is a horrible portrait of coercion, manipulation and abuse,” said the United States assistant prosecutor Andrew Paulson, to the closing arguments of the jury’s duration.
However, Smith’s lawyers argued that the outgoing personality of the guard made him an unnecessary objective for accusations of simulated abuse. They said that a previous investigation of an inadequate relationship between Smith and a partner, so Smith was authorized by a referee, made him “the perfect Patsy.”
“FCI Dublin not only failed the inmates, he also failed Mr. Smith,” said his lawyer, Naomi Chung, the jury.
On Monday, the jury described a panel that was quite divided on whether Smith was guilty or innocent. Often, the skeptics cited the lack of direct evidence that links Smith with the alleged assaults and the credibility of the inmates who testified against him, said the jury interviewed.
For Baudelio Medina, 30, the settlements received by the inmates who sedated the federal government who affirmed that the prison promoted a climate of abuse and reprisals played a “great role” in the belief of their testimony.
“The room was very, very divided in half,” said Medina, or Richmond. “There was nothing concrete. It was very, she said, she said.”
Prosecutors declined to comment after the jurors were dismissed on Monday afternoon. Chung did not immediately return a message from this new article.
The null trial occurs almost exactly one year after the prison office announced for the first time plans to close the crowded facilities.
An avalanche of demands in recent years affirmed that prison leaders cultivated a culture of abuse and reprisals, while providing decrepit medical attention. A demand received the class action status for the sinks of women housed in the prison in the spring of 2024, which led to an unprecedented settlement that secured numerous protections and an independent monitor to help protect against Furt A Abuse.
Another agreement obtained a payment of $ 116 million from the government for a little more than 100 of those inmates; Other demands remain on.
The prison is now vacant, after being permanently closed by the Prison Office in December 2024, citing low personnel levels and “considerable repairs” necessary for the installation. Initially, the move was animated by the defenders of the inmates for a long time, but now they fear that the prison can be criticized as a migrant detention center as part of the immigration offensive of President Donald Trump.
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