Sherb Sentell III Grabbed and Pushed His Wife by Kathryn Usher
For the second day in a row a story in the Shreveport Times has prompted me to get out my digital paints.
I'm reading "Queen Victoria's Sketchbook" and thinking about why I'm making art. And the story links from the local newspaper tie right into this. In 30 days the Shreveport Times will deactivate today's link so if you Google Sherb Sentell at that time, the story will not come up and we will just forget this happened. But if I take this story, make a piece of art about it and make it available in print form or just let it hang out at my flickr account, folks will forever know the story. And we can't make changes if we are forever forgetting the stories and outcomes that need to be changed. That's what I'm thinking...
Thank you to Shreveport artist Debbie Hollis Buchanan Engle for telling me about this story debbiebuchananengle.blogspot.com/2010/07/louisianas-good-...
for the heads up on the story written by Vickie Welborn
www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20100731/NEWS01/7310320/1...
July 31, 2010
Sherb Sentell to return to district attorney's office
By Vickie Welborn
vwelborn@gannett.com
MINDEN — After a nine-month absence, attorney Sherb Sentell is returning to work with the Bossier-Webster district attorney's office.
Sentell will be assigned as a prosecutor in Minden City Court in mid-August. He'll work there at least four months, maybe longer, before being allowed to do felony work in Webster District Court, District Attorney Schuyler Marvin said.
"But he will not be in a management position, and he will not be the head of the office or anything like that as he previously served," Marvin said.
Sentell, who is also an officer in the U.S. Army Reserves, resigned in October a week after his arrest for domestic abuse battery and public intimidation. Sentell was accused of grabbing and pushing his wife during an incident at a Bossier City casino that was caught on surveillance cameras. Bossier City officers handcuffed and arrested him even though Sentell's wife, Julie, who was not injured, asked that he not be arrested. It was obvious from the tapes that Sentell had been drinking.
While in the patrol car, Sentell is videotaped in a profanity-laced rant in which he also dropped names of attorneys and elected officials. The officers said Sentell threatened their jobs. The officer and a reserve lost their jobs. However, the officer appealed and was later reinstated.
In January, the state attorney's office declined to prosecute Sentell, saying there was no merit to the charges. Julie Sentell also asked the attorney general's office not to prosecute. In a statement released days after her husband's arrest, Julie Sentell called the incident a "private disagreement between two married people."
"He got exonerated by military, the attorney general and the (Louisiana Bar Association). Everybody looked into it and he got a pass. He is a good prosecutor "» and I think the whole defense bar would agree to that and anybody who walks in the courthouse would agree to that," Marvin said, adding that he believes the embarrassment of having the entire incident recorded and viewed by the public is punishment enough. "He is a really good prosecutor, and I just don't think he needs to be punished anymore."
In city court, Sentell will be responsible for prosecuting misdemeanor state law crimes such as DWIs and marijuana cases. But he'll take on other work as needed.
Sentell had been employed with the district attorney's office 10 years before his resignation. He held the position of chief felony prosecutor.
Just made a piece of digital art about this whole situation and put it on my blog "Sherb Sentell III Grabbed and Pushed His Wife." kathrynusherart.blogspot.com/2010/07/sherb-sentell-iii-gr...
That's the great thing about art. Long after links to stories in newspapers die... art will still be around telling the story.
Sherb Sentell III Grabbed and Pushed His Wife by Kathryn Usher
For the second day in a row a story in the Shreveport Times has prompted me to get out my digital paints.
I'm reading "Queen Victoria's Sketchbook" and thinking about why I'm making art. And the story links from the local newspaper tie right into this. In 30 days the Shreveport Times will deactivate today's link so if you Google Sherb Sentell at that time, the story will not come up and we will just forget this happened. But if I take this story, make a piece of art about it and make it available in print form or just let it hang out at my flickr account, folks will forever know the story. And we can't make changes if we are forever forgetting the stories and outcomes that need to be changed. That's what I'm thinking...
Thank you to Shreveport artist Debbie Hollis Buchanan Engle for telling me about this story debbiebuchananengle.blogspot.com/2010/07/louisianas-good-...
for the heads up on the story written by Vickie Welborn
www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20100731/NEWS01/7310320/1...
July 31, 2010
Sherb Sentell to return to district attorney's office
By Vickie Welborn
vwelborn@gannett.com
MINDEN — After a nine-month absence, attorney Sherb Sentell is returning to work with the Bossier-Webster district attorney's office.
Sentell will be assigned as a prosecutor in Minden City Court in mid-August. He'll work there at least four months, maybe longer, before being allowed to do felony work in Webster District Court, District Attorney Schuyler Marvin said.
"But he will not be in a management position, and he will not be the head of the office or anything like that as he previously served," Marvin said.
Sentell, who is also an officer in the U.S. Army Reserves, resigned in October a week after his arrest for domestic abuse battery and public intimidation. Sentell was accused of grabbing and pushing his wife during an incident at a Bossier City casino that was caught on surveillance cameras. Bossier City officers handcuffed and arrested him even though Sentell's wife, Julie, who was not injured, asked that he not be arrested. It was obvious from the tapes that Sentell had been drinking.
While in the patrol car, Sentell is videotaped in a profanity-laced rant in which he also dropped names of attorneys and elected officials. The officers said Sentell threatened their jobs. The officer and a reserve lost their jobs. However, the officer appealed and was later reinstated.
In January, the state attorney's office declined to prosecute Sentell, saying there was no merit to the charges. Julie Sentell also asked the attorney general's office not to prosecute. In a statement released days after her husband's arrest, Julie Sentell called the incident a "private disagreement between two married people."
"He got exonerated by military, the attorney general and the (Louisiana Bar Association). Everybody looked into it and he got a pass. He is a good prosecutor "» and I think the whole defense bar would agree to that and anybody who walks in the courthouse would agree to that," Marvin said, adding that he believes the embarrassment of having the entire incident recorded and viewed by the public is punishment enough. "He is a really good prosecutor, and I just don't think he needs to be punished anymore."
In city court, Sentell will be responsible for prosecuting misdemeanor state law crimes such as DWIs and marijuana cases. But he'll take on other work as needed.
Sentell had been employed with the district attorney's office 10 years before his resignation. He held the position of chief felony prosecutor.
Just made a piece of digital art about this whole situation and put it on my blog "Sherb Sentell III Grabbed and Pushed His Wife." kathrynusherart.blogspot.com/2010/07/sherb-sentell-iii-gr...
That's the great thing about art. Long after links to stories in newspapers die... art will still be around telling the story.