District judge dismisses two Jerry Boone charges

By Larry Tucker
editor@wood.cm
Posted 10/14/21

402nd District Judge Brad McCampbell dismissed cases of aggravated assault against Jerry Wayne Boone last Friday during a full court day of status hearings.

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District judge dismisses two Jerry Boone charges

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402nd District Judge Brad McCampbell dismissed cases of aggravated assault against Jerry Wayne Boone last Friday during a full court day of status hearings.

Boone had been given a two-year sentence in April 2018 for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the November 2015 shooting of John Phillip Forrester and five years in the shooting of John Winston Forrester. The sentences were to run concurrently.

The state had been represented by Joe Shearin, a Dallas attorney. According to Shearin he had not been paid by the county on work he had done on this case and the cases of former Wood County Sheriff Jim Brown and Deputy Miles Tucker. Those cases were also dismissed in 2020, and there was no state representation in Friday’s hearing concerning Boone.

Boone’s attorney, Lee Warren, was in the courtroom seeking the dismissal.

Boone is due for parole but had to get the aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charges dismissed before he could seek release. 

He was approved for parole on Aug. 13 subject to transfer to a rehabilitation program and successful completion of the program, with release no sooner than January.