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Jeffrey Bolden found guilty in security officer murder www.privateofficer.com
Bolden kicked Ruby in the back of the head in the emergency room. Springfield police arrested Bolden for assaulting his father and trying to set his father’s home on fire. A police dog who helped with the arrest put a deep bite on Bolden’s leg as Bolden hid in some bushes.
Medical examiners said Ruby died from an injured brain stem from the kick. Ruby collapsed moments after the kick, went into a coma and died a few days later.
Bolden’s defense attorneys presented medical experts who refuted the medical examiners, and said Ruby could have died from a stroke. They also argued Bolden had good reason to kick Ruby because Ruby had been choking him as he lay on a gurney.
A Greene County judge moved the case from Springfield to Columbia to try to ensure a fair outcome. Boone-Callaway county Circuit Judge Kevin Crane scheduled sentencing for Dec. 14. Bolden faces a prison sentence of 10 to 30 years (life) with possibility of parole for the murder conviction, and a sentence of five to 15 years for the assault conviction.
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Judge okays security guard’s body to be exhumed www.privateofficer.com
A Greene county judge will allow the body of a Springfield hospital security guard to be dug up from the grave.
Judge Mike Cordonnier agreed to the request Thursday made by the lawyer of Jeffrey Bolden.
Monte Ruby was buried last August, days after police say he was kicked in the head by Bolden who was brought to Cox North Hospital on August 2. Court documents say Bolden was arrested in connection with an assault and attempted arson.
Police had to use a dog to take him into custody. That’s why he was taken to the hospital; the dog had bitten him.
The court order granting exhumation says Bolden and Ruby knew each other before the incident.
Bolden claims when he was brought into the hospital that Ruby choked him.
Even though an autopsy was performed on Ruby’s body before burial, doctors did not scrape beneath his fingernails. The defense attorney suggests that’s where a pathologist would find signs Ruby choked the defendant.
Monte Ruby died four days after he was kicked in the back of the head.
Bolden is charged with second degree murder for the security guard’s death.
No date has been set for the exhumation. The medical examiners office says the process of scraping beneath the fingernails takes about 5 minutes.
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