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  • Attorney claims deputy used stun belt on sniper suspect Muhammad

    08/22/2003 9:23:09 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 21 replies · 202+ views
    Associated Press | August 22, 2003
    MANASSAS, Va. (AP) -- A sheriff's deputy shocked sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad with a stun belt after he refused to participate in medical tests at a hospital, his attorney said. Muhammad was taken by sheriff's deputies and guards from jail around noon Friday to undergo a court-ordered MRI and an electroencephalogram, which monitors brain waves. But Jonathan Shapiro, one of Muhammad's attorneys, told The Washington Post that hospital staff also wanted to X-ray the suspect's head before the MRI. Muhammad had not expected the X-ray and did not want to speak to sheriff's officials without his attorneys present,...