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$1,000,000 Award for Attorney’s Failure to Prosecute Prisoner’s Lawsuit

Loaded on Sept. 15, 2007 published in Prison Legal News September, 2007, page 29
Filed under: Sexual Assault, Staff-Prisoner Assault, STDs, Attorney Misconduct. Location: Massachusetts.
$1,000,000 Award for Attorney's Failure to Prosecute Prisoner's Lawsuit

On January 4, 2006, a Boston Superior Court awarded a $1,000,000 judgment against an attorney for failing to prosecute a lawsuit on behalf of a prisoner at Massachusetts' Suffolk House of Correction (SHC).

While incarcerated at SHC, Maria Perez was …

 

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