Ex-sheriff accused of keeping man in restraint chair for hours in case called ‘cruel and unusual’

In a federal courtroom in Atlanta, a former Georgia sheriff is back in the hot seat.

According to WSB-TV investigative reporter Mark Winne, a jury has now been seated in a civil rights lawsuit accusing former Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill of keeping a man strapped in a restraint chair for hours in what the complaint calls “cruel and unusual conduct.”

The case centers on Glenn Howell, a landscaper who says a simple billing dispute turned into a nightmare inside the Clayton County Jail…

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