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Los Angeles County Pays $110,000 for Wrongful Jail Death
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2006, page 30
Los Angeles County settled a lawsuit for the wrongful death of Julius Gray in the North County Correctional Facility on November 21, 1998. Gray, jailed for corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant, died from a ruptured aneurysm, according to the homicide investigation and coroners report. But Gray's family's forensic ...
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