On March 27, 2012, a visitor to the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiff sued jails employees and Los Angeles County under 42 U.S.C. §1983. Represented by private civil rights attorneys, the plaintiff asked the court for monetary damages. The plaintiff claimed that sheriff deputies severely beat him while he was visiting his brother in jail and then falsely accused him of attacking the deputies to cover up the beating. He filed this civil rights litigation after successfully defeating criminal charges. He claimed violations of the Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution, as well as California law.

On August 6, 2012, the court referred the parties to a private mediator. For two years, the parties both conducted discovery and negotiated settlement. On August 29, 2014, the parties settled the case for $1,175,000.

In addition, the plaintiff worked with federal prosecutors to initiate federal criminal prosecution against the defendant deputies. The settlement agreement is confidential.

Jessica Kincaid - 09/16/2015


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