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Furious Styles said:I hate to say it, but the only deputy marshal that I've known was an absolutely animalistic 'roid-head who worked out at the same gym as me...
The only deputy marshal that I've known, is a man I went through the police academy with, and lived with for several months, was a kind and gentle Christian man, who would never deliberately harm another person without believing it was absolutely neccessary to do his job. That said, he is in very deep trouble also, although he has been cleared of criminal charges. I believe from reading the news reports (and I want to emphasize that all I know of the matter is from news reports, I haven't spoken with him in ten years) that there was a deep flaw in training and upkeep of training that led to this tragedy
http://www.fansoffieger.com/usmarshal.htm
By John S. Hausman CHRONICLE STAFF WRITER
A federal lawsuit filed by Michigan's most famous trial attorney alleges the U.S. Marshal Service and two deputy marshals violated the constitutional rights of Leon Dandredge when a marshal shot him dead in a Muskegon home in August 2003.
Leslie Karum of Muskegon, the mother of Dandredge's youngest daughter, seeks damages from the deputy marshals, the marshal service and the U.S. government.
Karum sued last week in U.S. District Court's Western District of Michigan in Grand Rapids. She is represented by the firm of high-profile Southfield attorney Geoffrey N. Fieger, who ran for governor in 1998. Karum's local counsel is Kenneth Hoopes.
On Aug. 20, 2003, federal fugitive Dandredge, 35, was fatally shot in the face in the basement of a female friend's home at 1123 Pine. Dandredge was wanted on a warrant for parole violation. Two deputy U.S. marshals -- later identified as Mark Hessler and Ken Groenveld -- had gone to the home about noon looking for him.
According to an investigation by the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, Hessler shot Dandredge "out of surprise and fear," pulling the trigger of his handgun after Dandredge stood up from under a pile of clothing in a dimly lit basement laundry room. Groenveld was on the basement staircase when the shot was fired and did not see it happen.
The federal investigation, completed in March, concluded no crime was committed when Dandredge died. The marshal service then launched its own internal investigation to determine whether disciplinary action was warranted. No results of that probe have been released, according to Karum's attorneys...