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Civil Rights

Feb. 8, 2003

Jury Awards $18,000 To Man Hit by Officer

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury has awarded a Garden Grove man $18,000 for injuries he said he sustained when he was punched in the face by a former Compton police officer.

        LOS ANGELES - A federal jury has awarded a Garden Grove man $18,000 for injuries he said he sustained when he was punched in the face by a former Compton police officer.
        But the six-woman, two-man jury found Thursday that Officer Gilbert Cross, now a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy working on contract for Compton, was not liable for punitive damages. Dang v. Cross, CV-...

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