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$183,000 Awarded To California Deputy District Attorney Attacked During Parole Hearing

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Prosecutors, Sentencing, Assaults on Staff, Failure to Protect (Staff). Location: California.

$183,000 Awarded To California Deputy District Attorney Attacked During
Parole Hearing

In 1980, a California Deputy District Attorney (Savitt) was attacked and
stabbed multiple times by a maximum security prisoner during a parole
hearing. The prisoner had a hand made handcuff key and a hand made knife
hidden in his …

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