Florida judge orders no bond for jail officers charged in inmate dying By Reuters

By Brendan O’Brien

(Reuters) -A few Florida correctional officers have been requested to be held without having bond on Friday after they were billed with murder in the beating demise of a inmate housed in a psychological overall health unit two months back while he was currently being taken to another jail.

Miami-Dade Circuit Choose Mindy Glazer located probable induce to hold Christopher Rolon, 29, Kirk Walton, 34, and Ronald Connor, 24, in jail on expenses of next-degree murder, conspiracy, aggravated battery of a disabled grownup and cruel therapy of a detainee.

“We are on the lookout ahead to establishing his innocence when we go to court docket,” lawyer David Donet, who represents Walton, told a nearby NBC affiliate following the listening to.

A fourth officer, Jeremy Godbolt, 29, was taken into custody on Friday, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said for the duration of a news convention.

The correctional officers are accused of beating to death Ronald Gene Ingram, 60, on Feb. 14 at the Dade County Correctional Establishment, she reported.

“People today who are sentenced to incarceration by our prison courts have shed their liberty but not their fundamental rights. They must not be issue to types of again alley justice,” Fernandez Rundle said.

Ingram, who was serving life for initial-diploma murder, was currently being held in mobile in a psychological wellness unit when officers arrived to consider him to a jail in Lake County, about 300 miles (482 km) north. In advance of he was eliminated from his cell, Ingram threw urine at one particular of the officers, she mentioned.

The officers handcuffed Ingram and removed him from his mobile with out any further more incident. They then beat Ingram and carried him to a transport van the place they positioned him in a safe compartment by himself, she reported.

Through a prevent in Ocala, Ingram was observed deceased, lying on a bench inside the van. The inmate died as the consequence of a punctured lung and sustained injuries to his encounter and torso, Fernandez Rundle stated, citing a healthcare examiner report.