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Rikers Island Gunshot Victims' Suit Dismissed
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2005, page 28
A New York state court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by two men who claimed they were shot while asleep at the Rikers Island prison in New York City. Bronx Judge Alison E. Tuitt dismissed the suit on May 21, 2004four days into the trialbecause the prisoners had not shown ...
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