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Former officer accused of assault gets trial date

by Mark Slavit

Posted: 02.07.2013 at 5:30 PM

Mark Slavit

Mark Slavit is the Columbia Bureau chief and the Mid-Missouri Traveler.

Cole County Prosecutor Mark Richardson is acting as a special prosecutor in the Sanders case.

A former Columbia police officer facing third degree assault charges appeared before a judge Thursday afternoon.

A judge set the trial date for Rob Sanders as September 26.

Sanders was charged with assault after the release of a video of an incident in a holding cell that shows Sanders shoved inmate Kenneth Baker into a concrete wall.

Cole County Prosecutor Mark Richardson is acting as a special prosecutor in the Sanders case.

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