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Former officer pleads guilty to mistreating prisoner paralyzed in Connecticut police van
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FILE - Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump takes part in a march for justice for Richard "Randy" Cox to the New Haven Police Department on July 8, 2022, in New Haven, Conn. - photo by Arnold Gold/New Haven Register via AP, File
A former Connecticut police officer accused of mistreating prisoner Richard “Randy” Cox after he was paralyzed in the back of a police van pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor Wednesday and received no jail time, while three other officers chose to take their cases to trial. Betsy Segui, a former New Haven sergeant who supervised the city police station lockup, pleaded guilty to second-degree reckless endangerment in exchange for a 60-day suspended jail term. Another former officer, Ronald Pressley, took the same plea deal and received an identical sentence last week.