The Denver Coroner has ruled that the July 9 death of an inmate at the new jail was the result of homicide.

Marvin Booker was being processed on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia when he got into a scuffle with jail deputies. He was shocked with a Taser device and held to the floor.

Other inmates said Booker, 56, was then carried to the holding cell and dropped face first. He never recovered.

The coroner said deputies had their body weight on Booker’s back continuously for four minutes while he was face down and put him in a “sleeper hold” for more than two minutes while shocking him with a Taser for 8 seconds.

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In 1996, Ms. Tsehaye helped bring her distant cousin, Tsehai Hagos, a non-English-speaking woman to the U.S.  Hagos shared a bedroom with Tsehaye’s mother while Tsehaye paid her expenses and urged her to get a job.  Hagos lived in the house for about eleven years after which she moved in with other relatives.  These relatives and Hagos then proceded to shake down Ms. Tsehaye, claiming that she had enslaved Hagos in their house and trying to extort back wages.

It was immediately clear that Hago’s story about enslavement was full of gaping holes and contradicted by video tapes, photographs, and independant eyewitnesses all of which showed a person (Hago) who was neither enslaved nor hidden away from the rest of society.

Instead of trying to resolve this case outside of trial, the Araphoe DA’s Office opted to try the case, claiming that Tsehaye was involved in “human trafficking,” insensitive to the fact that immigrants commonly assist in bringing family members from other coutries to the U.S.

Jurors who acquitted Ms. Tsehaye saw right through the “victim’s” claims and recognized Hagos’ motivation to make up claims “so she could stay in the country.”

“In the DA’s office’s agenda to prosecute so overzealously, it seems that the facts of a case aren’t really an objective,” says Chris Cashbaugh, foreman of the jury that cleared Ruth Tsehaye at trial.

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As a result of these claims, an internal police investigation has been launched. Moreover, Denver District Attorneys have taken the step of reducing the level of assault charges against the assailants from felony level assault to that of a misdemeanor assault.

Andes had originally claimed that he was attacked by a group of about eight black males in a racially motivated attack ocurring in downtown Denver.

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