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Criminal

Feb. 6, 2001

Corrections Tries to Evade Financial Responsibility

The California Department of Corrections is playing three sides of the same coin in its effort to evade financial responsibility in Dillard v. Gomez.

Robert L. Bastian Jr.

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The California Department of Corrections is playing three sides of the same coin in its effort to evade financial responsibility in Dillard v. Gomez CVF94-5048 (E.D. Cal.).
        Dillard concerns events in 1993, when Corcoran prison guards punished inmate Eddie Dillard by placing him in a cell with known sexual predator Wayne Robertson. Robertson was a muscular 240 pounds compared with the 120-pound Dillard. Widely known as ...

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