Trial begins for Ohio deputy charged with murder

Filed by Associated Press July 28th, 2008 in Top Stories.
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AKRON, Ohio (AP) — The murder trial is set to begin for a northeast Ohio sheriff’s deputy charged in the death of a jail inmate nearly two years ago.

Summit County deputy Stephen Krendick is the first of five deputies to go on trial in the death of Mark McCullaugh Jr. and faces the most serious charge. Krendick has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder.

Twenty-eight-year-old McCullaugh died Aug. 20, 2006 after various restraints, pepper spray and a stun gun were used on him during a struggle at the county jail in Akron. His father says he was badly beaten, requiring a closed-casket funeral.

In the trial getting under way Monday before a visiting judge, the defense plans to argue McCullaugh died of heart failure resulting from a psychotic condition.

 


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