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Media Agencies Intervene to Unseal Records in Prisoner’s Wrongful Death Suit
Loaded on July 15, 2010
by Brandon Sample
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2010, page 36
On November 4, 2005, Earl Krugel was killed while exercising on the recreation yard at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Phoenix, Arizona, a medium-security facility.
Filed under:
Civil Procedure,
Disclosure of Records,
Federal Tort Claims Act,
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death).
Location:
Arizona.
Krugel, an activist for the Jewish Defense League, had been prosecuted and convicted for his role in a plot to bomb a California mosque ...
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