Laura Benitez Geisler<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0from the Dallas law firm of Sommerman, McCaffity, Quesada & Geisler. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Every subsequent action taken demonstrated the truth supporting that opinion, and that due process could be manipulated to fit the bias and whims of these officials. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re pleased the jury has compensated Mr. Bevill for the emotional and reputational damage he has suffered.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\nThe City of Quitman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attorney, Lance Vincent, could not be reached for comment on this verdict and his office said the case against the city was still pending.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This outcome is better than anything I could imagine,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Bevill. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153After five long years of waiting and two weeks of testimony, the jury just verified that I was right all along. All you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got in this life is your name, and now I hope people realize what I did was the right thing to do, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d do it all over again.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Bevill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lawsuit said that his firing and subsequent arrest left him without employment or health insurance need to take of his sick wife. The lawsuit also alleged that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Wood County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Department has a history of policies, practices and customs that encourage a culture of harassment, retaliation, and intimidation.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
QUTIMAN\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Former Quitman Police Department captain Terry Bevill won a $21.35 million verdict in his wrongful termination lawsuit against the City of Quitman on Thursday. According to our news partner KETK, a press release from Bevill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s representatives shows Bevill filed the suit against four elected officials, David Dobbs, who served as Mayor of Quitman … Continue reading Former police captain awarded millions in verdict against city<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1357055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/Beville-219x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 12:16:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/Beville-219x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1357053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357056,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357053\/revisions\/1357056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1357055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1357053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1357053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1357053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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QUTIMAN\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Former Quitman Police Department captain Terry Bevill won a $21.35 million verdict in his wrongful termination lawsuit against the City of Quitman on Thursday. According to our news partner KETK, a press release from Bevill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s representatives shows Bevill filed the suit against four elected officials, David Dobbs, who served as Mayor of Quitman in 2017, Tom Castloo, the former Wood County Sheriff, Jim Wheeler, former district attorney and Jeff Fletcher, a former state district court judge for Wood County.<\/p>\n