[Santa Cruz, CA] Steven Butler will receive $2.8 million from a stun-gun manufacturer for damages he sustained in 2006 after a Watsonvile, California police officer subdued him with a Taser X-26 stun-gun. Butler’s altercation with the police officer occurred when he refused to exit a bus. The powerful shock allegedly caused Butler to go into …
Wrongly Imprisoned Man To Receive $8 Million
[Long Beach, CA] Thomas L. Goldstein will receive $8 million from the city of Long Beach as part of a settlement after he spent 24 years in jail for a murder that he did not commit. His conviction came after a jailhouse informant, Edward Fink, testified that Goldstein had testified to the murder while they …