WE'LL TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT
COMING UP.
KELLY: NEW TONIGHT A FAMILY
FILES A WRONGFUL DEATH LAWSUIT,
CLAIMING JAILERS AND POLICE
KILLED THEIR SON.
40/29 NEWS WAS THE FIRST TO TELL
YOU ABOUT THIS THROUGH OUR
BREAKING NEWS ALERT.
OUR BRETT RAINS WAS THE FIRST TO
UNCOVER CASE FILES AND VIDEO
THAT SHOWED WHAT HAPPENED TO
20-YEAR-OLD CODY FRANKLIN.
HE HAS THE LATEST TONIGHT.
REPORTER: ACCORDING TO THIS
LAWSUIT FILED HERE IN FEDERAL
COURT IT CLAIMS CODY FRANKLIN
WAS TORTURED AND KILLED BY
POLICE AND JAILERS WHILE BEHIND
BARS.
I TALKED TO CODY'S FAMILY IN
SEPTEMBER.
>> I FEEL THAT CODY JACK WAS
VICTIMIZED.
>> HE IS THE VICTIM HERE.
REPORTER: FAMILY MEMBERS WAITED
FOR MONTHS TO FIND OUT HOW
20-YEAR-OLD CODY FRANKLIN DIED
IN JAIL.
TODAY, THEIR ATTORNEY TOLD ME
THEY ARE WAITING FOR JUSTICE.
>> IT'S CLEAR YOU CAN'T BEAT
SOMEONE AND TAZE THEM TO DEATH
UNDER THE LAWS OF THIS STATE AND
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
REPORTER: FRANKLIN WAS ARRESTED
MAY 10, FOR OBSTRUCTIN
GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS A
MISDEMEANOR.
BUT HOURS LATER HE DIED.
ACCORDING TO THE PROSECUTOR'S
CASE FILE, FRANKLIN STARTED
FIGHTING WITH INMATES BUT THE
FAMILY'S LAWSUIT CLAIMS, IT WAS
JAILERS WHO INSTIGATED THE
FIGHT.
>> JAILERS DELIBERATELY WALKED
BACK TO THE AREA WHERE CODY WAS
PTO BE HELD, INCITED THE OTHER
PINMATES BY ENCOURAGING THEM THAT
PTHERE WAS AN INMATE COMING WHO
PLIKE TO FIGHT.
PREPORTER: ACCORDING TO THE CASE
PFILE WHILE TRYING TO SUBDUE HIM,
PPOLICE AND JAILORS SHOCKED
PFRANKLIN WITH A STUN GUN AT
PLEAST 8 TIMES IN 11 MINUTES
PATTORNEYS REPRESENTING HIS
PFAMILY SAY HE WAS TORTURED.
P>> I DON'T MEAN THEY HIT HIM
PWITH A QUICK JOLT, I MEAN A
PTRIGGER WAS BEING DEPRESSED FOR
P5 SECONDS, FOR 5 SECONDS, FOR 7
PSECONDS, WITH AN ELECTRICAL
PCURRENT BEING SHOT THROUGH HIS
PBODY TO THE POINT WHERE HIS
PMUSCLES, HIS LUNGS, HIS ORGANS
PCOULD NOT FUNCTION THAT'S
PTORTURE.
PREPORTER: THE MEDICAL EXAMINER'S
PREPORT LISTED FRANKLIN'S DEATH
PAS A HOMICIDE CITING METH IN HIS
PSYSTEM AS WELL AS BEING
PRESTRAINED AND SHOCKED
PREPEATEDLY.
PTHE PROSECUTOR ELECTED TO NOT
PFILE CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST
PTHE JAILERS OR OFFICERS
PINVOLVED.
P>> THERE'S NO WAY A PERSON
PBRINGS THAT ON THEMSELVES, HE
PWAS BEATEN HE WAS CHOKED OUT AND
PHE WAS TAZED REPEATEDLY UNTIL
PHIS BODY STOPPED WORKING AND
PCOULD NO LONGER DRAW BREATH.
PREPORTER: THE LAWSUIT DOES NOT
PLIST THE SPECIFIC DOLLAR AMOUNT
PTHEY ARE SUING FOUR.
PATTORNEYS FOR THE FAMILY SAY
PIT IS TOUGH TO PUT THE VALUE ON
PTHE LIFE OF A 20-YEAR-OLD MAN.
PCITING THE PENDING LAWSUIT THE
PFRANKLIN COUNTY SHERIFF TELLS ME
PHE'S UNABLE TO MAKE ANY
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