Criminal
Jun. 2, 2004
Courts Show Deliberate Indifference to Jailhouse Violence
On Dec. 20, 1997, Daniel Segovia, whom our office represented, was dragged - after all the cell doors on his row in a Men's Central Jail gang module inexplicably opened simultaneously -into a cell with six other inmates, mauled and stabbed 52 times.
Robert L. Bastian Jr.
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Whittier Law School
On Dec. 20, 1997, Daniel Segovia, whom our office represented, was dragged - after all the cell doors on his row in a Men's Central Jail gang module inexplicably opened simultaneously -into a cell with six other inmates, mauled and stabbed 52 times.
The jail's policy was to leave all the gang module doors locked and closed. No one can (or will) say why Segovia was called out of his cell for a visitor who never existed or why, after he wa...
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