Ex-Guard Acquitted in Prison Attack
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A onetime corrections officer who spent 18 months in federal prison for shooting an inmate before his conviction was overturned has been acquitted in a retrial in federal court.
David Gene Lewis was charged with violating Harry Long’s civil rights by shooting and wounding him after a fight in a prison yard in 1994. Lewis said he was trying to protect the other inmate involved.
Lewis was convicted in 2000 and sentenced to nearly eight years in prison. The conviction was overturned in 2001 by a federal appeals court.
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