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===Jesse 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>
===Bossier Parish politics===
===Bossier Parish politics===
In 1985, Dooley was cited in ''[[The Chicago Tribune]]'' in an article on Louisiana politics focusing on the hierarchy of cozy political relationships. ''The Tribune'' described bail bondsman Wiley Fallon of Bossier City as a friend and supporter of Sheriff Dooley, "the law in Bossier Parish", who:
In 1985, Dooley was cited in ''The [[Chicago Tribune]]'' in an article on Louisiana politics focusing on the hierarchy of cozy political relationships. ''The Tribune'' described bail bondsman Wiley Fallon of Bossier City as a friend and supporter of Sheriff Dooley, "the law in Bossier Parish," who:
<blockquote>in turn is a friend and supporter of Governor Edwin Edwards. That's the long-accepted way things work in Louisiana, a state that operates under a political trickle-down theory, beginning with the governor. Just as in the economic trickle-down theory, the political version goes that if the big guns at the top are taken care of, the benefits will eventually reach everyone else down below. In the form, for example, of more hospital rooms. Eventually the power and its benefits, albeit on a much smaller scale, trickle down to the parishes--as the counties are called in Louisiana--to the Vol Dooleys and the Wiley Fallons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-06-02/features/8502040428_1_louisiana-hospital-system-reform-group|title=Clout Southern Style: When It Comes To Politics, Chicago Ain't Got Nothin' On The Pelican State|date=June 2, 1985|publisher=''[[The Chicago Tribune]'']|accessdate=February 28, 2014}}</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>in turn is a friend and supporter of Governor Edwin Edwards. That's the long-accepted way things work in Louisiana, a state that operates under a political trickle-down theory, beginning with the governor. Just as in the economic trickle-down theory, the political version goes that if the big guns at the top are taken care of, the benefits will eventually reach everyone else down below. In the form, for example, of more hospital rooms. Eventually the power and its benefits, albeit on a much smaller scale, trickle down to the parishes--as the counties are called in Louisiana--to the Vol Dooleys and the Wiley Fallons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-06-02/features/8502040428_1_louisiana-hospital-system-reform-group|title=Clout Southern Style: When It Comes To Politics, Chicago Ain't Got Nothin' On The Pelican State|date=June 2, 1985|publisher=''[[The Chicago Tribune]'']|accessdate=February 28, 2014}}</ref></blockquote>