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Deputy attacker sentenced

• An inmate at the Dougherty County Jail is sentenced for reckless conduct by an HIV-infected person.

J.D. Sumner

ALBANY — An HIV-positive inmate found guilty but mentally ill after biting a jailer was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison Thursday, court officials said.

Edlendco Shandar Green was found guilty during a bench trial by Superior Court Judge Stephen Goss July 7 of reckless conduct by an HIV-infected person and rioting in a penal institution by a mentally ill person after prosecutors say he bit a jailer during a fight at the Dougherty County Jail Nov. 17, 2006.

Goss handed down a 20-year prison term Thursday for the reckless conduct charge and a five-year term for the rioting charge with that term to be served concurrently with the 20-year sentence with credit for time already served in jail, court documents show.

Green was an inmate at the Dougherty County Jail when he got into a fight with Cpl. Chris LeBlanc and bit him on the finger, according to his arrest warrant.

He was originally charged with two counts of reckless conduct by an HIV-infected person, two counts of aggravated assault on a peace officer and rioting in a penal institution; three of the charges were later dismissed, court records show.

The initial incident that led to Green’s arrest and housing at the Dougherty County Jail prior to the fight with deputies remains under seal, according to the Dougherty County Clerk of Court’s Web site.

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