By Bob Walsh
Two former LA Sheriff’s Office deputies were sentenced yesterday to terms as guests of the federal government for the in-custody thumping of a mentally ill prisoner and falsifying documents in order to cover the incident up.
Bryan Brunsting, 31 was given a 21 month sentence. Jason Branum, 35, was given five months. Both are free pending appeal.
On March 10, 2010, Joshua Sather was a two-day rookie at the jail. He was the principle informant against the other two, one of whom was his training officer. The two deputies assert that Sather was untrustworthy and trying to avoid prosecution himself. Sather resigned from the S. O. shortly after the original incident. Sather was a participant in some of the incident with the inmate, but quit punching when the inmate quit resisting. The others did not.
The jury took only 90 minutes to reach their verdict.
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