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In 1967, Sheriff Waggonner and Chief Deputy Dooley were accused of collusion with then Judge [[O. E. Price]] and District Attorney Louis H. Padgett, Jr. of the 26th Judicial District in Benton to rig the double murder trial of rodeo champion Jack Favor (1911-1988) of [[Fort Worth]], [[Texas]]. Favor was falsely accused of shooting to death an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Richey, who operated a bait and tackle business near Haughton in south Bossier Parish. Waggonner believed the false testimony of Favor's accuser, Floyd Edward Cumbey.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/16846793/|title=Legal Blotch|date=January 6, 1982|page=20|publisher=''The Paris (Texas) News''|accessdate=February 7, 2014}}</ref> Favor sued for wrongful conviction and imprisonment but settled for $55,000 (147,000 in 2020 dollars).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19760317&id=jxFXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WUMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6270,4230032|title=People in the News: Jack Favor, rodeo star ...|publisher=google.com|accessdate=February 6, 2014}}</ref> The Favor case had no impact on Dooley's political viability.

In 1967, Sheriff Waggonner and Chief Deputy Dooley were accused of collusion with then Judge [[O. E. Price]] and District Attorney Louis H. Padgett, Jr. of the 26th Judicial District in Benton to rig the double murder trial of rodeo champion Jack Favor (1911-1988) of [[Fort Worth]], [[Texas]]. Favor was falsely accused of shooting to death an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Richey, who operated a bait and tackle business near Haughton in south Bossier Parish. Waggonner believed the false testimony of Favor's accuser, Floyd Edward Cumbey.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/16846793/|title=Legal Blotch|date=January 6, 1982|page=20|publisher=''The Paris (Texas) News''|accessdate=February 7, 2014}}</ref> Favor sued for wrongful conviction and imprisonment but settled for $55,000 (147,000 in 2020 dollars).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19760317&id=jxFXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WUMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6270,4230032|title=People in the News: Jack Favor, rodeo star ...|publisher=google.com|accessdate=February 6, 2014}}</ref> The Favor case had no impact on Dooley's political viability.

===Jessie Lee Smith case===​

===Jesse Lee Smith case===​

On July 23, 1984, Dooley and six of his deputies, one, Rick Ramey, then deceased, were directed to pay $2,500 to inmate Jessie Lee Smith for pain, suffering, and a delay in medical treatment in an incident which became violent while Smith was being transported from the Bossier Parish Jail in Benton to the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel in Iberville Parish in South Louisiana. Smith had just lost an appeal for [[armed robbery]]. Then U.S. District Judge [[Tom Stagg]]  described Smith as "obdurate or obstreperous" but said that the authorities used excessive force to control the inmate in violation of protections of the [[United States Constitution]]. Because doctors at the Hunt Center found no broken bones, skull fracture, concussion, or torn ligaments, Smith could not receive punitive damages in his suit. Judge Stagg said that he found no credible evidence that Dooley maintained a policy of physical abuse of prisoners at the jail. Nevertheless, he declared Dooley "jointly liable" with the deputies for abuse of Smith. Dooley was represented in the suit by state Senator Sydney B. Nelson of [[Shreveport]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/19841748591FSupp1157_11631|title=Jessie Lee SMITH v. Vol S. DOOLEY et al., July 23, 1984|publisher=leagle.com|accessdate=July 20, 2020}}</ref>​

On July 23, 1984, Dooley and six of his deputies, one, Rick Ramey, then deceased, were directed to pay $2,500 to inmate Jessie Lee Smith for pain, suffering, and a delay in medical treatment in an incident which became violent while Smith was being transported from the Bossier Parish Jail in Benton to the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel in Iberville Parish in South Louisiana. Smith had just lost an appeal for [[armed robbery]]. Then U.S. District Judge [[Tom Stagg]]  described Smith as "obdurate or obstreperous" but said that the authorities used excessive force to control the inmate in violation of protections of the [[United States Constitution]]. Because doctors at the Hunt Center found no broken bones, skull fracture, concussion, or torn ligaments, Smith could not receive punitive damages in his suit. Judge Stagg said that he found no credible evidence that Dooley maintained a policy of physical abuse of prisoners at the jail. Nevertheless, he declared Dooley "jointly liable" with the deputies for abuse of Smith. Dooley was represented in the suit by state Senator Sydney B. Nelson of [[Shreveport]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/19841748591FSupp1157_11631|title=Jessie Lee SMITH v. Vol S. DOOLEY et al., July 23, 1984|publisher=leagle.com|accessdate=July 20, 2020}}</ref>​

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