SoCal jury awards $2 million to man exonerated of rape

Crooked cops again. When are any of these B****s going to be brought to justice?

A federal jury awarded $2 million to a man who spent 12 years in prison for rape before DNA evidence cleared him. Jurors on Monday sided with Herman Atkins in a lawsuit that claimed a Riverside County sheriff's detective falsified evidence that led to his conviction.

Atkins, 41, was convicted of a 1986 rape and robbery in Lake Elsinore. He was freed in 2000 after DNA tests that were unavailable during his trial determined he was not the source of semen found on the victim's sweater.

Atkins sued Riverside County for wrongful conviction. He claimed that in papers seeking an arrest warrant, a detective falsely stated that a witness had seen Atkins in the area around the time of the rape. In their verdict, jurors agreed that the evidence was fabricated. The detective's "lies were not only exposed but put to rest" by the verdict, Atkins said.

The verdict came in the retrial of the lawsuit. A federal judge declared a mistrial in September after a jury deadlocked. An appeals court later removed U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson from hearing the retrial, saying his impartiality in handling the case might be questioned.

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Isn't that choice? California deploys a biased judge to back up a crooked cop!!


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