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Attorney Fees Awarded in Death Row Brutality Case
Loaded on July 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1996, page 15
A federal district court in South Carolina awarded a prisoner's attorney $29,516.50 in attorney fees and $1,856.17 in costs pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988. Cecil Lucas is a death row prisoner in South Carolina. After becoming drunk and combative with prison guards he was brutally beaten by guards while ...
Filed under:
Racial Discrimination,
Attorney Fee Awards,
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Damages,
Costs,
Death Row.
Location:
South Carolina.
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