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Justification for California Prisoner Shooting Death Disputed
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2004
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2004, page 8
Fresno County, California sheriff's investigators and California Department of Corrections' (CDC) officials disputed whether the shooting death of a Pleasant Valley State Prison (PVSP) prisoner on October 12, 2003 during a prison yard disturbance was justified based upon CDC's use-of-lethal-force protocol. Alejandro Enriquez, a 28 year-old lifer, was fatally shot ...
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