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Committee hears update on prosecution of former shelter employee accused of harming kittens
Summary
Committee members were told charges were filed in the Caswell case, the district attorney pursued trials and juries applied maximum penalties in the cases referenced in the transcript; the speaker said the defendant has been jailed for about a year.
Committee members received a status update on the prosecution of a former employee identified in the transcript as Mr. Caswell, who was accused of harming kittens at the shelter. A committee speaker said the shelter worked with the police department and the district attorney to file charges and that the case has gone to trial twice.
"We filed charges against that particular employee...we have brought 15 charges against this particular person, Mr. Caswell," the speaker said, adding that two trials had produced jury findings described in the transcript as "due max penalty. He got 10 years per trial and, $10,000 per case." The speaker noted that, as recorded in the meeting, that amounts to "20 years and, dollars 30,000" though the speaker qualified that "of course, there's parole and other things" and said they did not know how sentencing will play out entirely.
When asked whether the defendant is in custody, the speaker replied: "He is in jail now...probably about a year or so now." The committee framed this as an update rather than a policy action; no committee orders or votes concerning the prosecution were taken during the meeting.
