BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – After roughly five hours of deliberation, a Grand Isle jury is deadlocked in the case of Sheriff John Grismore.
The judge has sent the jury back into deliberation tonight, urging them to come to a decision. The Jury will decide soon if they will be able to come to a conclusion tonight or if they will reconvene in the morning.
Grismore was charged with simple assault for kicking shackled inmate Jeremey Burrows in 2022 when he was a captain with the department. The state calls it a case of simple assault, pointing to the fact that Grismore was not in uniform and could have used other means of getting Burrows to comply. Grismore has always maintained that he did nothing wrong and that he was helping less experienced officers get a situation under control.