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Ex-officers in Jude beating case get sentences of up to 17 years JOHN DIEDRICH Three former Milwaukee police officers convicted in the beating of Frank Jude Jr. will spend more than 15 years in prison, some of the stiffest sentences nationwide in a federal civil rights case in which the victim didn't die. In handing down the sentences Thursday, U.S. District Judge Charles Clevert said the beating outside an off-duty police party in 2004 hurt Jude and others but also severely undercut the public's trust in police. "Civil rights of the people of this community must be respected, even if you carry a gun and badge, even if you are police, even if you believe someone did something wrong," Clevert said. Jon Bartlett, 36, whom Clevert called the worstof the defendants, received 17 years and three months. He has been sentenced to another six years for two unrelated convictions.
Daniel Masarik, 27, who testified he wasn't there and according to Clevert lied under oath, received 15 years and eight months. Andrew Spengler, 28, the host of the party who Clevert said precipitated the beating and could have stopped it, received the same sentence as Masarik. Bartlett, Masarik and Spengler were convicted after a nearly three-week trial in July of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Jude and Lovell Harris and of assaulting Jude while acting as officers. Each faced up to 20 years in prison. Federal inmates typically serve 85% of their time. All have said they will appeal.
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