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After two mistrials, federal prosecutors have moved to dismiss sexual abuse charges against former FCI Dublin prison guard Darrell Wayne Smith, the last of 10 former employees to face charges in connection with abuse at the shuttered East Bay women’s prison.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Paulson on Wednesday filed a notice to dismiss charges against Smith, who was accused by four women incarcerated at FCI Dublin of abusing them between 2019 and 2021. The U.S. attorney’s office confirmed it does not plan to pursue another trial but declined to comment further.
During two separate weekslong trials this year, the women testified that Smith pushed them up against the walls of their cells and other secluded rooms in the housing units, forced his fingers inside of them and, in one case, compelled a woman to have sex with him…