Airick’s release delayed again
Saturday, May 31, 2008 - 12:36 pm
Although Airick’s case was reversed and remanded to the lower court on April 26, one month later he is still in TYC custody. Airick was moved from the facility where he had been held for more than a year to another TYC facility. He told his mother that while handcuffed prior to transport, he was left alone in the hall, where he was attacked by another youth, pushed to the ground, and kicked in the face. He received a black eye.
Airick also told his mother he had been caught in the cross-fire of a guard pepper-spraying another youth. Airick has asthma, as well as a rare and potentially life-threatening allergy to many chemical agents, and is officially on the list of youth whom staff are not supposed to spray.
His mother has been given no word about why his release is delayed, or when she should expect him to be out.
Airick’s original sentencing judge will have the option to order a retrial for him, during which prosecutors will have to show he intended to sexually assault the woman he admits to pushing down after she called him a racial slur while he was walking past her.
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