by Bob Walsh
There are a couple of non-traditional aspects to this case. The plaintiff is a male, a prisoner doing life at San Quentin for murderer. The defendant is a female vocational supervisor. Interestingly enough the state was NOT named as a defendant in the federal civil suit. The jury just came in on the case.
The plaintiff and "victim" was William Cordoba, 57. He alleges that his vocational training supervisor, Sylvia Pulido, held him in "sexual slavery" coercing him into preforming sexual acts on her in exchange for her promise to get him a lawyer to get out of prison. After a few months of pelvis pounding Cordoba found out that Pulido had something going on with another inmate and broke off the relationship. Ms. Pulido then (allegedly) wrote up several disciplinary reports that got him kicked out of the program and into the hole.
So he sued in federal court. Pulido's lawyer said that Cordoba was delusional. The jury believed Cordoba and awarded him $64,000 in damages. In addition the lawyer also gets his fees and costs from the defendant on top of that. Those have not yet been specified. It is still not clear whether or not the state will, in the long run, be on the hook even though they were not named as a defendant.
Pulido still works for the state, but no longer within the prison system. She is now with the State Hospital system.
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