Legal Affairs and Trials with Meghann Cuniff

Legal Affairs and Trials with Meghann Cuniff

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'I was a monster': Ex-cop gets two years in prison for steroid-fueled false imprisonment
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'I was a monster': Ex-cop gets two years in prison for steroid-fueled false imprisonment

The now-former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy shot and killed a teenager two months after the April 2020 incident. He said steroids made him 'short tempered.'

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Miguel Vega (right) leaves the new Los Angeles federal courthouse after sentencing on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, with his lawyer, Brian Gurwitz. (Screenshot via Kate Cagle, Spectrum News)

A now-former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who unlawfully imprisoned a man questioning his hassling of two young Black men was sentenced Monday to two years in federa…

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