Opinion ID: 1314955
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Paul Perez

Text: Paul Perez, one of the inmate trustees who swept out Teodorovic's cell, testified that he was standing five to seven feet away when the assault occurred. Perez recounted that, after he cleaned out Teodorovic's cell, Reimer used the loudspeaker to order Teodorovic back into his cell. When Teodorovic remained standing outside of his cell, Perez testified that Reimer entered the cell block and approached Teodorovic to escort him back into the ... cell, at which point Teodorovic sucker punched him, like up, right. The guy sucker punched him, and that's when Officer Reimer grabbed him and he tried to put him on the floor. Perez testified that, at this point, Reimer was on top of the inmate, trying to hold him. According to Perez, Coté then entered and began striking Teodorovic with his hands and using his feet to stomp him repeatedly on the head. When Teodorovic attempted to lift up his head in response to the kicks, Coté kicked it right back down and Perez could feel the vibration on the floor. Perez described the intensity of the kicks as real hard, and recounted that Coté was yelling at Teodorovic as he stomped him: You stupid mother fucker, what is wrong with you? Don't you know we're fucking COs? What, are you stupid? On direct examination, Perez testified that Coté kicked Teodorovic a lot of times, but he did not know precisely how many times. When pressed to quantify the number on cross-examination, Perez offered that it was several times and could have been from nine to ten, you know, or more. When asked for his best guess as to how long the stomping continued, Perez estimated like fifteen, twenty minutes.