Prosecutors have dropped the criminal case against an 18-year-old shot and injured by an Orange County deputy sheriff in December, an encounter that began over minor traffic violations, court records show.
Keshia Rytter, an East Ridge Middle School officer, was arrested after an argument that began when she called her boyfriend’s children’s hairstyle “ghetto,” according to the arrest report. She was suspended for five days without pay as a result of the incident and will return to work in Lake County schools next week.
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A former deputy with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office is facing charges of perjury and battery stemming from his account of a January 2020 arrest of a woman he accused of battery, records show.
Amanda Brumfield, released from prison this fall in a deal with prosecutors, spoke publicly Tuesday for the first time about her case, about how she no longer trusts the criminal justice system and how she wants to help other women unjustly in prison. She was sentenced to 20 years for manslaughter in the death of her best friend's baby in 2011, a conviction that Innocence Project of Florida attorneys argued was based on "junk science."