After deciding this week that a former Los Angeles police officer fired for dishonesty was liable for killing a man, a federal jury Wednesday awarded the victim's family $1.7 million.
Joseph Cruz killed Mohammad Usman Chaudhry early on a March morning in 2008
UGG Amberlee, when Cruz and his partner encountered the 21-year-old autistic man lying in the bushes alongside a Hollywood apartment building.
Since the killing
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UGG Amberlee, after four days of testimony
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During the trial
Discount ugg, lawyers for the Chaudhry family presented evidence aimed at putting doubt in the minds of the jurors over Cruz’s account. Testing on the knife that Cruz said Chaudhry had used
discount ugg boots, for example, found one person’s DNA profile on the handle and blade but showed that the DNA was not Chaudhry’s.Topics related articles: