Legal Opinion
People v. Guillen
California Court of Appeal
Decided July 7, 2014No. G046163PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
O’LEARY, P. J.
On September 14, 2006, John Derek Chamberlain was arrested for possession of child pornography. Twenty-one days later, inmates in Theo Lacy jail in the City of Orange (TLJ) beat Chamberlain to death because they believed he was a child molester. As waves of inmates hit, kicked, stomped, and did other abhorrent things to Chamberlain over the course of about 30 minutes, three Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) personnel sat in an enclosed guard station approximately 68 feet away. Chamberlain suffered injuries consistent with a high-velocity car accident, including…
2Cases cited102 opinions
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- People v. WatsonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1956
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- United States v. RussellSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
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3Cited by41 opinions
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