Arlington man gets 60 years for attack on jailer during escape attempt
Posted on Mon, Jun. 29, 2009
By MARTHA DELLER
Fort Worth Star Telegram
FORT WORTH — A 22-year-old Arlington man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for assaulting a Tarrant County jailer during an escape attempt last year.
Jurors deliberated about an hour last week before convicting Herschel Jerome Hurd of aggravated assault on jailer Michael Thompson, whom Hurd attacked with a shank as he and two other inmates tried to escape in August, prosecutor Tiffany Burks said. Thompson was one of four county employees injured.
Hurd received a 50-year prison sentence in April for an aggravated robbery in April 2008, one of four he was charged with committing over three weeks in Arlington. After hearing about the other injured jail employees, Hurd’s robbery spree and his 2006 convictions for robbery and injury to a child, the jury deliberated about three hours before recommending the 60-year prison term, Burks said.
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