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Two Dead and $4.675 Million Paid After Deputies’ Alleged Misconduct in California’s Sonoma County

Loaded on Sept. 15, 2023 by Casey Bastian published in Prison Legal News September, 2023, page 28
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Stun Guns/Tasers, Settlements. Location: California.

by Casey J. Bastian

A coroner’s report on March 14, 2023, confirmed that an undocumented worker was fatally shot by a Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department (SCSD) deputy after a foot chase the previous summer. Sebastopol attorney Izaak Schwaiger, who is representing the estate of the dead man, David Pelaez-Chavez, 35, ...

 

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