Fayette guard’s attorney presents defenses in alleged assault lawsuit
The attorney for a prison guard who was sued by an inmate over an alleged assault has filed an answer to the complaint, offering affirmative defenses to the suit.
Jennifer L. McPeak, representing Bruce McCombie, stated that there was no claim presented upon which her client could be held liable in Timothy Reckner’s federal lawsuit.
Reckner, a key witness in the 2000 death of a newborn infant girl, alleged in his suit that McCombie and fellow Fayette County Prison guard Joseph Yeagley assaulted him, locked him in a dumbwaiter and told inmates he was a “snitch.”
The suit named both guards, the county and former prison warden Larry Medlock. Only McCombie’s attorney has filed paperwork answering the complaint, however.
McPeak also listed as defenses that McCombie is entitled to immunity from suit and noted that any injury Reckner may have suffered “were caused in whole or in part by the conduct, act or omission of third parties.”