Former Bell Mayor George Cole, sentenced Wednesday to home confinement for his role in the small city’s corruption case, said after the verdict that is filled with shame and remorse for the scandal. A onetime steelworker and the son of a Presbyterian minister, Cole was ordered to sentenced to 180 days of home confinement and […]

A man who said he was beaten by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies while visiting his brother at Men’s Central Jail will be paid almost $1.2 million to settle his civil rights lawsuit. Attorneys for Gabriel Carrillo, 26, announced the settlement Thursday. It was approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and finalized […]

2013 saw many court victories in California in the area of police brutality civil rights. We at California Police Brutality Lawyers are especially happy with the following three holdings, which expand the ways victims of police brutality can secure justice under state and federal law: Hayes v. City of San Diego – California Supreme Court, […]

November 12, 2013 | By James Barragan A federal jury awarded $210,000 in punitive damages Tuesday to five inmates who claimed in a lawsuit they were beaten by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies. Five deputies who were supervising other officers during the incident at Men’s Central Jail were ordered to pay the damages. The beatings […]

By Christina Villacorte, Los Angeles Daily News Los Angeles County taxpayers are on the hook for at least $740,000 in damages after a federal jury Thursday found dozens of Sheriff’s Department supervisors and deputies “engaged in malicious and sadistic conduct” against inmates at Men’s Central Jail in 2008. During the five-week trial, jurors watched videos […]

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) —  Nearly one year after his release from prison for a wrongful murder conviction, Frank O’Connell is striking back at the justice system. O’Connell Monday filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles against the county and one of the detectives involved in his 1984 case. He spent 27 […]