Date: 08-03-2023

Case Style:

United States of America v. Christian Dedmon, Hunter Elward, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton, Daniel Opdyke and Joshua Hartfield

Case Number: 3:23-cr-00062

Judge: Tom S. Lee

Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (Hinds County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office in Jackson

Defendant's Attorney: -->

Description: Jackson, Mississippi criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with conspiring depriving people of their rights under color of law, conspiracy to obstruct justice.

Five former Rankin County Sheriff’s Department employees, including Christian Dedmon, Hunter Elward, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton, Daniel Opdyke and Joshua Hartfield, a former Richland police officer, who called themselves the "The Goon Squad" assaulted two black men that ended with an officer shooting one of the men in the mouth.

The officers, who are all white, entered a house without a warrant on Jan. 24, assaulting the men with a sex toy and using stun guns and other objects to abuse them over a roughly 90-minute period.

CONSPIRACY AGAINST RIGHTS
(1)
DEPRIVATION OF RIGHTS UNDER COLOR OF LAW
(2-3)
DEPRIVATION OF RIGHTS UNDER COLOR OF LAW
(10)
CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE
(11)
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
(12)
CONSPIRACY AGAINST RIGHTS
(13)

Defendants also pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court of Rankin County to home invasion, aggravated assault, conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice and obstruction of justice.