Verdicts
Feb. 16, 2008
Orange County Agrees to Pay $600,000 in Killing of Inmate
SANTA ANA - Orange County has settled a lawsuit growing out of the first killing in a county jail in 20 years. Left unexplained by the $600,000 deal is how jail guards managed to ignore a mob of inmates beating another inmate to death for 20 minutes and whether the guards themselves instigated the violence.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
This article appears on Page 1 of Verdicts and Settlements.
SANTA ANA - Orange County has settled a lawsuit growing out of the first killing in a county jail in 20 years.
Left unexplained by the $600,000 deal is how jail guards managed to ignore a mob of inmates beating another inmate to death for 20 minutes and whether the guard...
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