Look up George Gwaltnery, CHP officer, Barstow, CA.
Acquitted of murder charges in state court, tried in federal ct -- central district of CA -- convicted and died in federal prison.
Highway Patrol officer George Michael Gwaltney, twice acquitted of raping and murdering a young woman following a traffic stop in the desert, was convicted on a federal charge of violating her civil rights. Gwaltney, whose two San Bernardino County murder trials ended with hung juries, was sent to the federal prison on Terminal Island after a jury that deliberated less than two days returned its verdict Thursday afternoon. It was Gwaltney’s first incarceration since he spent 16 days in jail when he was first arrested, three days after the Jan. 11, 1982, murder of Robin L. Bishop, 23, an aspiring actress from Las Vegas, Nev. He is the only CHP officer ever accused of committing murder while on duty. Gwaltney showed no emotion as the jury foreman read the verdict but his mother and his wife, Marilyn, began crying. His brother, Steve, who is a CHP officer, had no comment on the jury’s decision. The defendant’s mother, asked by a reporter for comment, replied, “Drop dead.”
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19840511.2.20&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1
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