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California Judge and Lecturer in Law at Stanford, Jeremy Fogel approved a $1.85 million settlement with a former inmate who was assaulted in an overcrowded county jail:
In Monterey County, similar political dynamics found in the statewide debate on prison overcrowding recently played out in miniature.
Northern District Judge Jeremy Fogel last week approved a $1.85 million settlement with a former inmate who had been assaulted in the county jail. The plaintiff, Jimmy Haws, was on pretrial detention for armed robbery when his cellmate attacked him and caused severe brain damage. The state dropped all charges against Haws after the incident, said his lawyer, San Francisco solo Michael Moore.
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Then, after plaintiff lawyers negotiated with the excess carrier, a deal for $1.85 million was struck in the hallway just minutes before Fogel would have heard the last pretrial motions.