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Wrongfully Imprisoned California Man Awarded $18 Million
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2007, page 36
On February 15, 2006, a federal jury in California awarded $18 million to a man who was wrongly charged with sexual assault of a child and imprisoned for 10 months.
Filed under:
Police Misconduct,
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Damages,
Wrongful Imprisonment,
Police,
False Arrest.
Location:
California.
During his false imprisonment in the Los Angeles County Jail, Ramirez, 26, was spat on by deputies and urinated on ...
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