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On the witness stand, Dr. Dianne R. Vertes told a State Supreme Court judge she hadn't spoken to anyone associated with Erie County while testifying. But a subsequent admission in
These details, revealed in court in recent days as a former top jail official took the witness stand in the civil trial over Richard Metcalf Jr.'s death, shed light on
Erie County Sheriff's Sgt. Matthew Cross put both the "spit mask" and the pillowcase "loosely" on Metcalf's head, but he didn't tie the mask and didn't see who did, he
An Erie County Holding Center inmate died in 2012 because jail deputies asphyxiated him with their restraint methods, a prominent forensic pathologist told a State Supreme Court jury this week.
The Erie County Sheriff's Office believes the original file of its investigation into the 2012 death of Holding Center inmate Richard Metcalf Jr. was destroyed when it shouldn't have been.