Supervisors to appeal $2.4-million verdict
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County supervisors voted in closed session Tuesday to appeal a $2.4-million verdict for the family of a man fatally shot by sheriff’s deputies during a struggle over a gun.
A jury originally awarded Robert Mitchell’s relatives $3.2 million in connection with his death in 2002 in Palmdale. A federal court judge later reduced the award.
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