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"Judges reinstate guard's brutality convictions"

"Judges reinstate guard's brutality convictions": Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, "A federal appeals court has reinstated the brutality convictions of a Southern California prison guard for yanking two shackled inmates from a van and throwing them to the ground headfirst."

You can access last Friday's non-precedential ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

The case represents the latest reversal of a decision by U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real in which the Ninth Circuit has instructed that the case be assigned to a different district judge on remand.

Full post as published by How Appealing on July 23, 2009 (boomark / email).