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Jury Awards $858,200 in California Jail Suicide
Loaded on May 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2006, page 31
On February 22, 2006, a federal jury sitting in Sacramento found San Joaquin County, and Dr. Robert Hart, MD., liable for the death of Maurice Shaw in August of 2000. Shaw, who suffered from schizophrenia, was arrested on a minor drug charge in May of 2000 and kept in solitary ...
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