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Los Angeles County Pays Prisoner $42,500 for Legal Malpractice by Public Defender
Loaded on March 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2006, page 33
by John E. Dannenberg
Filed under:
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Attorneys,
Public Defenders,
Malpractice (Attorneys),
Immigration,
Municipal Liability.
Location:
California.
The County of Los Angeles paid $42,500 to settle a legal malpractice claim brought by a prisoner who suffered state prison plus felony disenfranchisement upon an unlawful conviction.
In October 1992, Jose Castro, represented by the Public Defender, pled guilty to statutory rape (California Penal Code ...
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