Three former Santa Clara County jail guards plead guilty to a single voluntary manslaughter charge after beating mentally ill inmate Michael Tyree to death in 2015.
Dustin DorseyThree former Santa Clara County jail guards plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter after beating mentally ill inmate Michael Tyree to death in 2015.Former Santa Clara County jail guards Rafael Rodriguez, Jereh Lubrin and Matthew Farris plead guilty to a single voluntary manslaughter charge after beating mentally ill inmate Michael Tyree to death in 2015. It's considered a resolution nine years in the making.
"They plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter, to beating and killing Michael Tyree with conscious disregard for his life - conscious disregard for human life," Santa Clara Co. District Attorney Jeff Rosen said, "Today was a victory for the vulnerable and the voiceless."
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