Sunday, March 2, 2003
Use of force
MUNFORD
A federal jury
will determine whether a Peachtree City police officer injured a woman
while arresting her for obstruction of a police officer during a domestic
violence investigation back in August 1998.
Carolyn O'Keefe
claims that officer Vicki Roman injured her while she was subdued and
handcuffed in the hallway of her home after O'Keefe left the kitchen contrary
to the instructions of then-Sgt. David Lamb to stay there.
The jury was
expected to begin deliberating the case as late as this morning.
Lamb, who is
now a lieutenant, testified in court Wednesday that he told Roman to handcuff
O'Keefe, who was charged with obstruction of a police officer for failing
to stay in the kitchen area as Lamb and Roman ordered.
O'Keefe's husband,
Kevin, had ordered her to go
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