(NewsNation) — A former maintenance worker at the New Orleans jail where 10 inmates escaped May 16 has been formally charged with assisting the breakout as his attorney continues to accuse authorities of scapegoating Sterling Williams.
The 33-year-old Williams shut off the water that day after someone purposely clogged a toilet at the problem-plagued Orleans Parish Justice Center, his attorney, Michael Kennedy, told “Banfield” on Wednesday. He said Williams denies doing it so that inmates could remove the commode to slip through a wall, as authorities allege.
“He was the jail plumber,” Kennedy said. “He entered the tier. There was a toilet that had been stuffed full of jail clothing, towels, etc., forcibly overflowed. In order to clear it, he was forced to turn off the water. That’s his job.
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“We do expect that evidence is going to prove that as soon as discovery is tendered.”…