Hawley seeks bail revocation for former Missouri sheriff
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley is asking that bond be revoked for a southeast Missouri sheriff who is charged with 18 criminal counts and was temporarily removed from office after an inmate died at the jail.
Hawley said in a news release Tuesday that he wants former Mississippi County Sheriff Cory Hutcheson either jailed or barred from interfering in Hawley's investigation into the May 5 death of inmate Tory Sanders, 28, of Nashville, Tennessee.
Sanders' death after an altercation with jail personnel came about a month after Hutcheson was charged with 18 counts, including an allegation that he handcuffed a 77-year-old woman with so much force that she suffered a heart attack. When he was charged, a Mississippi County Circuit Court judge refused to deny him bail.
Despite being suspended after the charges were filed, Hutcheson was at the jail and directed the altercation that led to Sanders' death, Hawley said.
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