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Trooper Found Not Guilty  The jury of eight men and four women
had more than two days of testimony and evidence to go over, but
in the end, it took less than two hours to deliver the verdict.
The verdict was not guilty. The jury found that Trooper Burton
isn't to blame for recklessly causing Billy Phillips death in
the Adair County Jail.  The jury bought the claim that Trooper
BJ Burton was just trying to protect himself from Phillips, who
was being booked at the jail after being arrested for drunk
driving.  Prosecutors argued that Burton laid into Phillips with
two elbow strikes, a kick and a knee, which they say caused him
to slam his head on the jail floor and die four days later.
However, it was a case the Commonwealth said wasn't easy to
prosecute a police officer.  powered by Disqus