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Dallas settling fake-drug lawsuits.
Publication: The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, Texas) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) Publication Date: 26-JAN-05 |
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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Dallas Morning News
Byline: Matt Stiles
Jan. 26--The city of Dallas has agreed to settle at least four of the nine federal civil-rights lawsuits stemming from the fake-drug scandal. The monetary payouts to those plaintiffs -- four Hispanic men falsely arrested in 2001 -- were not disclosed Tuesday. All of the cases were scheduled for trials in the next several months.
The agreements are a signal that most, if not all, of the remaining lawsuits could soon be settled. That would close another chapter in the embarrassing 2001 scandal in which more than two-dozen innocent people went to jail based on bogus drug evidence.
Court records show that settlement talks continue in several of the remaining lawsuits. They generally accuse the city and former police officials involved in the series of bogus arrests of civil-rights violations -- or of creating an environment that...
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