Larry Pippion

'I don't feel like we finished the job': Jury finds Banta guilty in Mount Sterling prison beating death, can't reach unanimous decision on Sheffler

April 25, 2022 | By David Adam, MRN Editor

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — About 45 minutes after an eight-man, four-woman jury found a former corrections officer at the Western Illinois Correctional Center guilty of all five charges against him, two jurors were frustrated no decision was reached regarding the fate of a lieutenant at the same prison. “I don’t feel like we finished the job,”…