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Los Angeles ADA Agrees to Pay $1.2 Million to Settle DUI Suit
Loaded on March 15, 2012
by Michael Brodheim
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2012, page 45
by Mike Brodheim
Filed under:
Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct,
Transportation,
Attorneys,
Attorney Misconduct.
Location:
California.
On July 19, 2011, Marilyn Seymour, an Assistant District Attorney for Los Angeles County, agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by two women who suffered injuries when Seymour, while drunk, crashed into their car a year earlier.
Attorneys on both sides claimed victory. …
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