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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.

===Jesse Lee Smith case===​

===Police brutality 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>​

In his last year as sheriff from 1987 to 1988, Dooley was president of the Northwest Division of the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement, an agency created under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to direct federal funds to local and state law enforcement entities with the goal of making them more effective in protecting the citizenry.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221233247/http://rrdnw.com/History1.htm|title=History of Northwest Law Enforcement Agency|publisher=rrdnw.com|accessdate=February 17, 2014}}

In his last year as sheriff from 1987 to 1988, Dooley was president of the Northwest Division of the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement, an agency created under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to direct federal funds to local and state law enforcement entities with the goal of making them more effective in protecting the citizenry.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221233247/http://rrdnw.com/History1.htm|title=History of Northwest Law Enforcement Agency|publisher=rrdnw.com|accessdate=February 17, 2014}}

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On October 24, 1987, Dooley was unseated as sheriff by his former chief deputy, Larry Clinton Deen of Benton, a son of Jesse C. Deen, a retired educator and then an outgoing state representative for Bossier Parish. Larry Deen polled 17,113 votes (62 percent) to Dooley's 7,973 (28.9 percent). Bill Gray, a third Democratic candidate, held the remaining 2,518 votes (9.1 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref>​

On October 24, 1987, Dooley was unseated as sheriff by his former chief deputy, Larry Clinton Deen of Benton, a son of Jesse C. Deen, a retired educator and then an outgoing state representative for Bossier Parish. Larry Deen polled 17,113 votes (62 percent) to Dooley's 7,973 (28.9 percent). Bill Gray, a third Democratic candidate, held the remaining 2,518 votes (9.1 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref>​

 

After he left the sheriff's department, Dooley worked in security for the Port of Shreveport.<ref name=shrtimes/><ref name=statepolice/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.entergy-louisiana.com/content/economic_development/ports/Caddo_Bossier.pdf|title=Caddo-Bossier Port Commission|work=entergy-louisiana.com|accessdate=February 17, 2014}}</ref> At some time after his term as sheriff ended, Dooley, despite his ties to Edwin Edwards, re-registered as a Republican, as did his successor, Larry Deen.<ref>The voter portal maintained by the Louisiana Secretary of State (then [[Tom Schedler]]) as of August 12, 2014, listed Dooley as a Republican voter and his month and year of birth as January 1927. The portal is kept up to date and upon death, usually within a week or even less of passing, a voter is struck from the listing. This prevents election fraud with "the dead" casting ballots.</ref> Sheriff Julius Whittington, elected in 2011, is also a Republican.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns (Bossier Parish), October 22, 2011.</ref>​

After he left the sheriff's department, Dooley worked in security for the Port of Shreveport.<ref name=shrtimes/><ref name=statepolice/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.entergy-louisiana.com/content/economic_development/ports/Caddo_Bossier.pdf|title=Caddo-Bossier Port Commission|work=entergy-louisiana.com|accessdate=February 17, 2014}}</ref> At some time after his term as sheriff ended, Dooley, despite his ties to Edwin Edwards, re-registered as a Republican, as did his successor, Larry Deen.<ref>The voter portal maintained by the Louisiana Secretary of State (then [[Tom Schedler]]) as of August 12, 2014, listed Dooley as a Republican voter and his month and year of birth as January 1927. The portal is kept up to date and upon death, usually within a week or even less of passing, a voter is struck from the listing. This prevents election fraud with "the dead" casting ballots.</ref> Sheriff Julius Whittington, elected in 2011, is also a Republican.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns (Bossier Parish), October 22, 2011.</ref>​

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==Family life==

==Family life==

Two days after Dooley's reelection as sheriff in 1983, he moved out of the home that he had shared with his first wife, Bobbie Katherine Dooley (born 1932), to whom he was married for thirty-one years. Each claimed in a bitter divorce allegations of cruel treatment "which rendered their living together insupportable." Mrs. Dooley claimed that her husband was involved in an affair with his secretary amid the reelection campaign.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/19851042478So2d564_1928|title=Bobbie Katherine DOOLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Vol S. DOOLEY, Jr., Defendant-Appellee., October 30, 1985|work=leagle.com|accessdate=July 20, 2020}}</ref> Dooley subsequently remarried; his widow is Ruth Lilley Brown Dooley (born 1936), originally from Pleasant Hill in Sabine Parish and one of five children of James Oda Lilley (1908-1994) and the former Lucille Jewel Greer (1909-1988).​

Two days after Dooley's reelection as sheriff in 1983, he moved out of the home that he had shared with his first wife, Bobbie Katherine Dooley (born 1932), to whom he was married for thirty-one years. Each claimed in a bitter divorce allegations of cruel treatment "which rendered their living together insupportable." Mrs. Dooley claimed that her husband was involved in an affair with his secretary amid the reelection campaign.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/19851042478So2d564_1928|title=Bobbie Katherine DOOLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Vol S. DOOLEY, Jr., Defendant-Appellee., October 30, 1985|work=leagle.com|accessdate=July 20, 2020}}</ref> Dooley subsequently remarried; his widow is Ruth Lilley Brown Dooley (born 1936), originally from Pleasant Hill in Sabine Parish and one of five children of James Oda Lilley (1908-1994) and the former Lucille Jewel Greer (1909-1988).​