{"id":334568,"date":"2015-03-19T18:06:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T23:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=334568"},"modified":"2015-03-20T17:15:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T22:15:10","slug":"judge-dismisses-charges-against-marshall-police-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=334568","title":{"rendered":"Judge Dismisses Charges against Marshall Police, City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/03\/marcussladelnj.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/03\/marcussladelnj-150x150.png\" alt=\"marcussladelnj\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-334569\" \/><\/a>MARSHALL \u00e2\u20ac\u201d U.S. Magistrate Judge Roy S. Payne dismissed charges this week against the city of Marshall, three Marshall police officers, and former police chief Stan Spence, accused of the wrongful death of Marcus Dewayne Slade (pictured).  KETK and the Longview News-Journal report Slade, of Marshall, died on Jan. 4, 2013, while in police custody after having been shocked by stun guns. He was 32.  Slade\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family filed suit on Dec. 12, 2013, accusing the officers of using excessive force and battery, inflicting bodily injury. Taser International was also named as a defendant in the suit and accused of designing, manufacturing, assembling, marketing, distributing, and selling a defective and unreasonably dangerous product.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Court documents show that over the course of discovery, the plaintiffs, represented by Attorney William Hughey, dismissed the claims against Taser International, along with all state law claims against the city and the officers.  But the documents show the plaintiffs elected to proceed only with the wrongful death claims against the city and the officers based on denial of medical care and excessive force.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In order for the plaintiffs to recover for wrongful death, they not only need to prove a violation of either of the rights discussed above, they must also prove that the violation caused Mr. Slade\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Judge Payne wrote in his memorandum order, which accompanied his judgment.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Plaintiffs concede that they do not have evidence that either the delay in medical care or any excessive use of force caused Mr. Slade\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Payne wrote. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Plaintiffs also conceded at oral argument that they did not have evidence that the use of Tasers, or any other force, was a cause of Mr. Slade\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Payne noted that the plaintiffs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 expert witness, Dr. D.G. Edwards, focused instead on the opinion that the defendants deprived Slade of the chance of survival by not taking him immediately to the hospital.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unfortunately for plaintiffs, that is simply not a viable cause of action in this jurisdiction,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Payne wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARSHALL \u00e2\u20ac\u201d U.S. Magistrate Judge Roy S. Payne dismissed charges this week against the city of Marshall, three Marshall police officers, and former police chief Stan Spence, accused of the wrongful death of Marcus Dewayne Slade (pictured). KETK and the Longview News-Journal report Slade, of Marshall, died on Jan. 4, 2013, while in police custody &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=334568\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Judge Dismisses Charges against Marshall Police, City<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 14:58:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334568","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334574,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334568\/revisions\/334574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}