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Civil Rights

Mar. 12, 2015

Controversy over attorney jailed for contempt heats up

Caree Harper, the lawyer for the homeless woman beaten by a California Highway Patrol officer, said she has hired prominent plaintiffs' attorney Mark J. Geragos to represent her in a dispute with U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Caree Harper, the lawyer for the homeless woman beaten by a California Highway Patrol officer, said Tuesday that she has hired prominent plaintiffs' attorney Mark J. Geragos to represent her in a dispute with U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II.


Wright put Harper in custody for contempt last week for refusing to answer questions about how and when she learned her client, Marlene M. Pinnoc...

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