OGDEN, Utah — An inmate who says jailers in Weber County fractured his vertebrae and put him in a wheelchair has pleaded no contest to two of the charges that placed him in that jail.

Corey N. Chesney, 38, had maintained his innocence. Friday, through his civil attorney, he said he entered the pleas so he could get out of Weber County.

But he’s not free.

After a court hearing Tuesday, he was transferred to the Utah County jail. He has a pending misdemeanor count of assault by a prisoner in state court in Provo. The jail’s website says he is being held in lieu of $4,000 bail.

Chesney had been in the Weber County jail since April 2024 , according to court records. Probation agents – Chesney earlier had pleaded no contest to an assault – say they found methamphetamine as well as a revol

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