(May 9, 2008)--A former Texas guard who was charged in the death of an inmate whose head was rammed against a wall has pleaded no contest to manslaughter.
Jose Rodriguez, Jr., 28, was given the minimum sentence, probation, by a jury that said it would have acquitted him.
Rodriguez originally faced a 99-year sentence on a murder charge that prosecutors reduced to manslaughter.
After Rodriguez pleaded no contest this week, a jury gave him two years of probation on a second-degree felony charge that carried maximum 20 years in prison.
Rodriguez was accused of slamming 52-year-old Paul Ray Judia's head into a cell wall at the Formby Unit in November after the handcuffed inmate allegedly kicked him in the groin.
Judia, who was serving a 10-year sentence for burglary, died at a hospital three days later.
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