On the witness stand, Dr. Dianne R. Vertes told a State Supreme Court judge she hadn t spoken to anyone associated with Erie County while testifying. But a subsequent admission in
These details, revealed in court in recent days as a former top jail official took the witness stand in the civil trial over Richard Metcalf Jr. s death, shed light on
Erie County Sheriff s Sgt. Matthew Cross put both the "spit mask" and the pillowcase "loosely" on Metcalf s head, but he didn t tie the mask and didn t see who did, he
An Erie County Holding Center inmate died in 2012 because jail deputies asphyxiated him with their restraint methods, a prominent forensic pathologist told a State Supreme Court jury this week.
The Erie County Sheriff s Office believes the original file of its investigation into the 2012 death of Holding Center inmate Richard Metcalf Jr. was destroyed when it shouldn t have been.