CELEBRITY PHOTOG MAY GET $80,000.Byline: Troy Anderson Staff Writer A Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County panel will decide Wednesday whether to pay $80,000 to celebrity photographer Wendell Wall, who had sued the county after he was jailed on suspicion of stalking Barbra Streisand Noun 1. Barbra Streisand - United States singer and actress (born in 1942) Barbra Joan Streisand, Streisand and her husband, James Brolin, as they visited car dealerships in Thousand Oaks. Wall, formerly of Malibu, was arrested Jan. 8, 2000, by deputies on a charge of stalking based on a report by Streisand and Brolin, wrote Senior Deputy County Counsel Millicent L. Rolon in claims board documents. Streisand and Brolin said they were being stalked and followed on the freeway by Wall who took pictures of them at car dealerships, Rolon wrote. Wall was incarcerated incarcerated /in·car·cer·at·ed/ (in-kahr´ser-at?ed) imprisoned; constricted; subjected to incarceration. in·car·cer·at·ed adj. Confined or trapped, as a hernia. for four days at the Lost Hills sheriff's station where he was held in lieu of $1 million bail. The District Attorney's Office declined to prosecute based on insufficient evidence insufficient evidence n. a finding (decision) by a trial judge or an appeals court that the prosecution in a criminal case or a plaintiff in a lawsuit has not proved the case because the attorney did not present enough convincing evidence. of a credible threat of harm to the victims, Rolon reported. In his lawsuit, Wall alleged false arrest and imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. , intentional infliction of emotional distress The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. and violation of his federal civil rights. The lawsuit lists the county and four individual Lost Hills sheriff's deputies as defendants. ``They grabbed him and searched him,'' said Wall's Beverly Hills attorney, Lawrence Longo. ``We didn't think there was probable cause Apparent facts discovered through logical inquiry that would lead a reasonably intelligent and prudent person to believe that an accused person has committed a crime, thereby warranting his or her prosecution, or that a Cause of Action has accrued, justifying a civil lawsuit. to do all that. There was no reason for $1 million bail on this case. ``He was never a stalker. He's a photographic journalist. He was taking photos in public places on public property.'' Longo said Wall lived a few hundred yards away from Streisand on the same street in Malibu. ``It wasn't like they didn't know who he was,'' Longo said. At the time of the incident, Wall was employed as a celebrity photographer and reportedly earned $69,000 annually, Rolon wrote in her report. ``It is claimed that widespread publicity given to his arrest as a celebrity stalker irreparably damaged his career, causing him to leave the state of California,'' Rolon wrote. According to Rolon's report, the County Counsel's Office believes a jury could find in Wall's favor and render a verdict exceeding the proposed settlement, estimating potential damages at $370,000. |
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