Former Elmore County Sheriff's Offic deputy to serve federal time in brutality case
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Tristen Quinn speaks to the media at the law office of McPhillips, Shinbaum in Montgomery in July 2022.

After appeals for leniency from a wife, a mother, a father and Elmore County Sheriff Bill Franklin, Blake Hicks will serve 29 months in federal prison for his part in an excessive force case.

“This isn’t an average person kicking someone in the head during a bar fight,” Assistant United States Attorney Eric Counts said at Hicks’ sentencing Monday. “This is a person sworn to uphold the law.”

This video is provided by attorneys representing Tristen Quinn. They say Quinn was a victim of police brutality at the hands of officers with the Wetumpka Police Department and the Elmore County Sheriff's Department