Federal judge keeps civil charge against suspended trooper
A federal judge denied a suspended Missouri State Highway Patrol’s motion to throw out a civil rights lawsuit against him. Judge Nanette Laughrey said a jury could decide on whether Trooper Anthony Piercy violated 20-year-old Brandon Ellingson’s civil rights when Ellingson drowned while in Piercy’s custody at the Lake of the Ozarks. The Attorney General’s
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