Settlement offered in Mitrice Richardson case: $900,000
County reportedly willing to pay
The parents of Mitrice Richardson, the missing 24-year-old who was found dead almost a year after being released from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Malibu station, have reached a tentative agreement to settle their lawsuits against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for $900,000.
Richardson’s parents have been in a back-and-forth battle with the sheriff’s department since the beginning and have their critiqued how their daughter’s case was handled, specifically her being released from custody after midnight with no transportation, purse, or cell phone.
Since then, there have been a number of alleged missteps on the Sheriffs department side including moving her remains without the permission of the coroner’s office, and leaving behind remains after the extraction. The settlement amount is still tentative, sources said, and has not yet been officially approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
Michael Richardson, Mitrice’s father, said he would continue to speak out about the sheriff’s department’s handling of the case. “In my eyes, as the father, I didn’t receive justice. My daughter’s killer is still out there,” he said.
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Lawyers for the parents of a woman found dead in Malibu after being released by sheriff's deputies are entitled to video showing the woman's behavior inside and outside the jail and station house, a judge ruled today.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William F. Fahey ordered lawyers for the county to make the video of Mitrice Richardson available by tomorrow afternoon.
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The remains of a 24-year-old woman, whose decomposing body was found in Malibu’s backcountry nearly a year after she was released from the local sheriff’s station, were exhumed today at her family’s request in an attempt to determine how she died.
A memorial service was recently held for Mitrice Richardson, the 24-year-old woman whose remains were discovered Aug. 9, 11 months after she was released from Malibu Lost Hills Police station. She was held, after being arrested for non-payment of a dinner tab at Geoffrey’s restaurant.
During the service, which was organized by the victim’s mother Latice Sutton and other friends of the family, they came across what was later determined to be a finger bone.
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The mother of Mitrice Richardson, whose remains were found in a ravine about 11 months after she was released from the sheriff's Malibu/Lost Hills Station, wants her daughter's body exhumed.
Latice Sutton has scheduled a news conference Monday to talk about her daughter's case. Sutton wants the FBI to look at whether sheriff's deputies moved the body improperly, without letting coroner's investigators examining it where it was found, and if authorities made a rush to judgment in ruling the death accidental.
The City Council is set next week to consider acontroversial $4.5-million settlement payment to a man paralyzed in 2005 whenLos Angeles police officers shot the unarmed suspect during a foot chase, a
shooting that a jury ruled was unjustified.
The case has pitted Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, LAPD ChiefCharlie Beck and some members of the City Council against City Attorney CarmenTrutanich, who negotiated the settlement.
The case involves a police chase that ensued after RobertContreras, then 19, drove a van from the scene of a drive-by shooting in South Los
