Winston Hayes v. County of Los Angeles
Mar 07, 2008OUTCOME: Verdict $1.3 Million + 1988 fees
Winston Hayes was shot at 120 times in Compton at the conclusion of a car chase. See details at Insider Exclusive video with Steve Murphy, on You Tube, or Blip TV. We achieved a historic verdict March ... 7, 2008 in Compton which made headlines internationally. The case was a civil rights case alleging excessive force by the Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff's Department, the largest police agency in the United States. In 1995, I achieved another stunning and historic verdict in civil rights with my partner Garo Mardirossian, the largest civil rights verdict in United States history in another case against the L.A. County Deputy Sheriffs, a ten-year battle. In that case I took most of the depositoons, wrote the complaint, and fought side by side with the lawyers in a battle arising from a Samoan bridal shower at the Dole home in Cerritos, California. The verdict was over $18,000,000. After appeals, it rose to over $25,000,000. The Winston Hayes case will change police practices in our area and make this a safer State, and hopefully have National effect. We can change the world and make it a safer place, one verdict at a time.
