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FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A former jailer sentenced to life in prison for killing a Valley City State University student is suing Cass County and jail officials for $24 million, saying he injured his right wrist in a 2007 fall in the jail in Fargo.
Moe Gibbs filed the lawsuit Monday in federal court.
Cass County Sheriff Paul Laney did not return a call seeking comment. Laney had said in November 2007, a week after Gibbs was convicted of murder, that he got a notice Gibbs would seek $24 million.
Gibbs was convicted of strangling 22-year-old college student Mindy Morgenstern, of New Salem. He later pleaded guilty to a 2004 rape in Fargo, and to charges that he assaulted five women inmates at the Barnes County jail where he had worked as a jailer.
Gibbs' wrist was bandaged during his two murder trials. He was convicted in Bismarck after his first trial in Minot ended in a jury deadlock.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A former jailer sentenced to life in prison for killing a Valley City State University student is suing Cass County and jail officials for $24 million, saying he injured his right wrist in a 2007 fall in the jail in Fargo.
Moe Gibbs filed the lawsuit Monday in federal court.
Cass County Sheriff Paul Laney did not return a call seeking comment. Laney had said in November 2007, a week after Gibbs was convicted of murder, that he got a notice Gibbs would seek $24 million.
Gibbs was convicted of strangling 22-year-old college student Mindy Morgenstern, of New Salem. He later pleaded guilty to a 2004 rape in Fargo, and to charges that he assaulted five women inmates at the Barnes County jail where he had worked as a jailer.
Gibbs' wrist was bandaged during his two murder trials. He was convicted in Bismarck after his first trial in Minot ended in a jury deadlock.
