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Arizona Prison Guard Awarded $750,000 for False Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2008
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2008, page 15
On March 26, 2007, an Arizona jury awarded $750,000 to an Arizona prison guard who claimed a state investigator knowingly withheld evidence exonerating him of alleged malfeasance and sexual misconduct.A female state prisoner accused the plaintiff, a 31-year-old male prison guard employed by the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADOC), ...
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