Trial opens for San Diego deputy accused of seriously injuring restrained court defendant

Trial opens for San Diego deputy accused of seriously injuring restrained court defendant

A San Diego County sheriff’s deputy bickered with and mocked a mentally ill inmate whose wrists and ankles were shackled before shoving the inmate into the wall of a courthouse detention cell, causing a serious spinal fracture that required surgery and months of hospitalization, a prosecutor told a jury Tuesday during opening statements of the deputy’s trial in San Diego federal court. Jeremiah Manuyag Flores was indicted in January by a federal…