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$1 Million L.A. County Jail Rape Award Overturned
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2005, page 34
by Marvin Mentor
Filed under:
Sexual Assault,
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Failure to Protect (General),
Attorney Fee Awards,
Damages,
Wrongful Imprisonment,
Municipal Liability.
Location:
California.
The California Court of Appeal, in an unpublished opinion, reversed a Los Angeles (L.A.) County jury verdict that had awarded $1 million in damages to a jail detainee who was brutally beaten and raped in his L. A. County Jail module while waiting twenty hours to be ...
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