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$1.2 Million in Settlements Reached in Suit Over Sacramento Jail Murder
Loaded on May 1, 2025
by Douglas Ankney
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2025, page 43
Filed under:
Settlements,
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death),
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
California.
by Douglas Ankney
On February 7, 2025, California’s Sacramento County made a $600,000 offer of judgment that was accepted by the Plaintiffs in a suit filed over a detainee’s murder at the County lockup in 2019. The Estate of Bryan Debbs had earlier accepted another $600,000 settlement offer from the ...
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