By Tony Marrero, Times Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Shawn Terry hugs his wife, Marcy, after being acquitted of perjury in Circuit Judge Daniel Merritt Jr.’s courtroom in Brooksville on Tuesday evening. Terry resigned from the police department the day before he was arrested in July.
BROOKSVILLE — Former Brooksville police Detective Shawn Terry was acquitted on perjury charges Tuesday night after prosecutors failed to convince a jury that he urged an informant to lie in a drug case and then lied in a deposition for the same case.
Terry, 33, nodded his head once as the verdicts were read. His wife, Marcy, pregnant with the couple's third child, broke down in tears.
After the verdict, Terry said the case was based on a desire for revenge by State Attorney Brad King and Assistant State Attorney Don Barbee, who heads the Brooksville office.
Terry said the charges came ...