Heidi Eckert News Today

Marty Oberman has been a CSCSTL board member and leader for more than 30 years, including three years as board chair from 2000-2003.

EAST ST. LOUIS - After a previous jury concluded that Brian Schell did not resist arrest during a criminal trial in 2019, jurors at his civil trial against Madison County deputies heard the full story and decided that he did.

EAST ST. LOUIS - Trial begins today on a claim that Madison County deputies Eric Schellhardt and Marc Asbury applied excessive taser force to county resident Brian Schell.

EAST ST. LOUIS – Former Madison County sheriff John Lakin must defend a claim that his office shared liability with deputy Timothy Mudd and others for a wrongful death, Chief U. S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel ruled on Sept. 29.

BENTON – Siblings Jayson Bull and Angie Roberts oppose each other in suing Madison County over the death of their brother Mark Bull in county jail after he allegedly hit his head while experiencing drug withdrawal symptoms.

BENTON – Senior U. S. District Judge Phil Gilbert declared mistrial on an excessive force claim against Madison County because county counsel Heidi Eckert "sandbagged" him and wasted the jury’s time, according to his statements the next day.

BENTON – Madison County jurors found Brian Schell of Highland didn’t resist arrest and now jurors in U.S. district court must decide whether deputies acted appropriately when they tasered him.

BENTON – Senior U. S. District Judge Phil Gilbert postponed an excessive force trial against Madison County deputies for three months in anticipation of a winter storm.

BENTON – Madison County jurors found Brian Schell of Highland didn’t resist arrest and now jurors in U. S. district court must decide whether deputies should have tasered him twice.

BENTON – Madison County resident Brian Schell deserves trial on claims against sheriff’s deputies Eric Schellhardt and Marc Asbury, Senior U.S. District Judge Phil Gilbert ruled on Nov. 29.