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JACKSON v. CITY OF SAN DIEGO

Docket No. 22257.

121 Cal.App.3d 579 (1981)

175 Cal. Rptr. 395

SERGEANT JACKSON, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CITY OF SAN DIEGO, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

July 14, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

John W. Witt, City Attorney, Ronald L. Johnson, Chief Deputy City Attorney, and Vincent P. Di Figlia, Deputy City Attorney, for Defendant and Appellant.

Sheela, Lightner & Castro, Barton C. Sheela, Jr., and Kim W. Cheatum for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

WIENER, J.

The emotionally charged question in this appeal is whether an innocent man, convicted and imprisoned for crimes he did not commit, can obtain damages for the entire period of his incarceration.

We are unable to treat this question as an original proposition. The Legislature in enacting the California Tort Claims Act (Gov. Code, § 810 et seq.)

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