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Corcoran Shooting Death Suit Settled for $825,000
Loaded on May 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1999, page 18
On November 10, 1998, the California Department of Corrections (CDC) settled a lawsuit involving the 1994 shooting death of prisoner Preston Tate for $825,000. Tate, a black gang member, was in the Corcoran prisons Security Housing Unit (SHU) when guards placed him in an exercise yard with rival Latino gang …
Filed under:
Attorney Fee Awards,
Excessive Force,
Shootings,
Damages,
Settlements.
Location:
California.
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