Lost job, but not liberty

Our client was a ten year veteran prison officer whose career was cut short when an inmate accused him and other prison officers of unlawfully assaulting him and trying to cover it up by failing to identify himself as the officer who assaulted the inmate in an incident report. He was charged with assault occasioning bodily harm and corruptly making a false record. We advised our client to proceed to trial, on the basis that he could not be guilty of any alleged cover up if there was no unlawful assault to cover up in the first place. After a six-day District Court trial, the jury agreed and took less than two hours to find our client not guilty on both counts.