Los Angeles County Pays $900,000 to Parents of Murdered Informant in Jail

Loaded on March 15, 2006 published in Verdict1 March, 2006, page 10

Filed under: Prison/Jail Murders, Failure to Protect (General), Settlements, Municipal Liability, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Protective Custody, Informants (Failure to Protect). Location: California.

The County of Los Angeles (L.A.) agreed to pay $700,000 to the mother, and $200,000 to the father, of a 20 year old county jail prisoner murdered in his cell by a free-roaming prisoner against whom he had just testified in a murder trial.

Raul Tinajero, a car thief, had ...

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