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Brief • May 11, 2009
Coats v. Fox, CA, Complaint, failure to treat hep c, 2009 Case 2:09-cv-01300-CMK Document 1 Filed 05/11/09 Page 10 of 53 Case 2:09-cv-01300-CMK Document 1 Filed 05/11/09 Page 13 of 53 Case 2:09-cv-01300-CMK Document 1 Filed 05/11/09 Page 16 of 53 Case 2:09-cv-01300-CMK Document 1 Filed 05/11/09 Page 18 of …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
$1.5 Million Settlement for CA Jail Prisoner’s Broken Leg by Ventura County, California officials have settled an excessive-force lawsuit brought by a prisoner whose leg was severely broken while he was being restrained by jail deputies. The $1.5 million award, while admittedly high, avoided both the high costs of attorney …
Article • April 15, 2009
Ninth Circuit Rejects Total Ban on Computer Use for Sex Offender by On August 11, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected a special condition of supervised release that, read broadly, imposed a total ban on computer use outside work. Robert Ray Burnett Goddard was convicted …
Article • April 15, 2009
California Sexual Predators Have Right to Testify at Civil Commitment Hearings by The Supreme Court of California has held that a defendant in a sexually violent predator proceeding does have California and federal constitutional rights to testify over counsel’s objection, but that refusing to allow the testimony is a harmless …
Article • April 15, 2009
Ninth Circuit: California Governor’s Reversal Of Lifer’s Parole Violates Due Process Absent Some Evidence Of Current Dangerousness; Rehearing En Banc Granted by In a major victory for California lifers, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a second-degree murderer who had done 27 years on a 15-life sentence …
Los Angeles County Pays $850,000 in Shooting Death of Suspect by The County of Los Angeles agreed to settle for $850,000 a lawsuit that alleged police used excessive force in killing a man after a pursuit. The County denies that police acted improperly, but entered into the settlement to avoid …
Article • April 15, 2009
Court Orders California Prison Officials to produce Document In Response To Discovery Request by U.S. Magistrate Judge G. Hollows has ordered prison officials in a suit alleging inadequate medical care to turn over various documents not provided in response to requests for discovery. Victor Carrasquillo, a California state prisoner, filed …
$1.35 Million Settlement in Fatal California Police Shooting by California’s Alameda County has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit that claimed police were liable for killing a bystander to a confrontation with police for $1.35 million. Officers David Taylor and Tara Russell responded to a Dublin house on August 11, …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
California Class-Action Suit Reinstates $1.5 Million Illegally Siphoned From County Jail Inmate Welfare Fund by John Dannenberg California Class-Action Suit Reinstates $1.5 Million Illegally Siphoned From County Jail Inmate Welfare Fund by John E. Dannenberg Santa Clara County, California (SCC) agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit seeking recovery of funds …
California Juvenile Parolees Entitled to Two-Step Revocation Process; Case Settles by John Dannenberg California Juvenile Parolees Entitled to Two-Step Revocation Process; Case Settles by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California has held that the rights of California juvenile parolees were violated by the …
California Female Parole Supervisor Awarded $859,000 for Gender Discrimination by Female Superior by California Female Parole Supervisor Awarded $859,000 for Gender Discrimination by Female Superior A Los Angeles jury has awarded $859,000 in damages to a female state parole supervisor who claimed that her superior, also a woman, discriminated against …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
CA Supreme Court Capitulates, Rewrites "Unworkable" 2005 Dannenberg Lifer Judicial Parole Review Standards by CA Supreme Court Capitulates, Rewrites "Unworkable" 2005 Dannenberg Lifer Judicial Parole Review Standards In a welcome reversal of its own “hotly contested” 4-3 decision in In re Dannenberg, 34 Cal. 4th 1016 (2005), concerning judicial review …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
Filed under: Money/Property, Restitution
California: Restitution Fine Unlawful for Accessory to Murder by California: Restitution Fine Unlawful for Accessory to Murder The California Court of Appeal (1st District) reversed a trial court’s imposition of a $12,083 restitution fine in an accessory-to-murder conviction because the criminal act – accessory after the fact – did not …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
$100,000 Settlement In Death of Diabetic California Prisoner by $100,000 Settlement In Death of Diabetic California Prisoner The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) settled for $100,000 the wrongful death suit brought by the surviving son of a CDCR prisoner who died from undertreated diabetes after a 2½ year …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
Cornell Defrauded of $13 Million in Prison Construction Scam by Cornell Defrauded of $13 Million in Prison Construction Scam On August 26, 2008, indictments were filed against three men accused of defrauding private prison operator Cornell Corrections of California, Inc. out of $13 million in a prison construction scam. A …
Article • April 15, 2009
California Unlawful Arrest and Excessive Force Nets $90,000 by The City of Salinas, California paid a Daly City man $90,000 to settle his lawsuit for unlawful arrest, detention and excessive force. Maurice Goodman, an African American staff paralegal for the San Mateo County Superior Court, and coach and team president …
$4,000,000 Award Against LA County Sheriff for Wrongful Death Shooting by On November 20, 2002, Robert Mitchell, a black man recently released from prison, was shot dead by LA County Deputy Rick Manes after being mistakenly identified as a burglar. Although directly contradicted by several eyewitness accounts, Manes asserted the …
$155,751 Award Against California Youthful Offender Parole Board Upheld by A California court of appeals upheld a jury award of $9,046.00 and $146,705.00 in attorney fees to a former California Youthful Offender Parole Board (YOPB) employee. Lisa Steele, a former clerk at the YOPB, filed suit in California superior court …
Article • April 15, 2009
California Appellate Court: First-Degree Murderer Released After 24 Years And Four Governor-Reversals Of Grants Of Parole by The California Court of Appeal, in 2-1 decision, overruled Governor Schwarzenegger’s fourth reversal of a grant of parole for a 60-year-old female first-degree murderer after finding that her release was not supported by …
Article • April 15, 2009
California Supreme Court Holds Records of Illegal Search Exempt from Disclosure Under Public Records Act by In July 1999, Elgin Haynie was pulled over by Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff David Mertens because Haynie's vehicle matched the description of one reported minutes earlier through 911. After searching the van and …
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