Three Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were convicted Wednesday of beating a man bloody and lying to cover up their actions.
The federal jury that had been deliberating the case since Tuesday found that deputies Sussie Ayala and Fernando Luviano and former Sgt. Eric Gonzalez used unreasonable force on Gabriel Carrillo in February 2011 when he came to visit his brother, who was an inmate in the county jail. The defendants were also convicted of falsifying records to obstruct justice.
The case stemmed from the FBI’s wide-ranging abuse investigation at the county jails.
In her opening statements to jurors earlier this month, Assistant U.S. Atty. Lizabeth Rhodes called the incident “a beat-down in a closed room and defendants who thought if they all tell the same lie, they could get away with it.”
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