Jailed YouTuber Jason Dollarhide received a minor victory in his long-delayed civil rights lawsuit in Oklahoma as a judge granted him the ability to file a new amended complaint pending certain conditions are met.
Dollarhide’s case has been nearly inactive since August of 2023 as he has been incarcerated in Oklahoma, awaiting trial on a $156,000.00 bond for multiple charges. In the last real activity in the case, the defense objected to Dollarhide’s proposed amended complaint as it failed to state a case against any of the individual defendants.
Judge Patrick R. Wyrick, acting nine months later, agreed with the defense and granted Dollarhide the ability to file an amended complaint with two options: 1) Remove any mention of the individual opposing defendants, or 2) make specific accusations against each of the opposing defendants so that they are on fair notice of the claims against them.
The original complaint in the case was submitted as a handwritten filing as Dollarhide was incarcerated at the time of the filing. It asks for a judgement against the defendants for $250,000,000.
The original complaint comes from an incident where Dollarhide and his then wife Heather were in a national park in a deer watching area when they were contacted by a local state trooper and refused to provide identification when it was requested.
In the months that followed Dollarhide’s filing, he was arrested and had bond revoked for multiple charges in August of last year. His wife Heather then filed for divorce, at the urging of Jose “Chille” DeCastro after the couple’s six-year-old child was taken away from them by child services. Dollarhide and his wife remain estranged, and his daughter is still in custody of a relative under the order of child protection services.
Jose “Chille” DeCastro, who has been Dollarhide’s financial benefactor since he has been in prison, is now jailed in Las Vegas, Nevada. Brian “Here’s the Deal” Young, speaking for DeCastro, has indicated that all the funding on both of DeCastro’s GoFundMe campaigns, including the one specifically devoted to people DeCastro is helping (including Dollarhide), would go directly to DeCastro’s reported $48,000 bill for legal services.
It is unclear when or if Dollarhide will be able to reply to Friday’s order.
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