FIGHT NETS INMATE 3 MORE YEARS BRAWL BEGAN OVER PRAYERS.Byline: KAREN MAESHIRO Staff Writer LANCASTER -- An inmate INMATE. One who dwells in a part of another's house, the latter dwelling, at the same time, in the said house. Kitch. 45, b; Com. Dig. Justices of the Peace, B 85; 1 B. & Cr. 578; 8 E. C. L. R. 153; 2 Dowl. & Ry. 743; 8 B. & Cr. 71; 15 E. C. L. R. 154; 2 Man. & Ry. 227; 9 B. & Cr. from the Lancaster prison has been sentenced to three more years for his role in a prison-yard altercation last year between correctional officers and about 20 inmates. The fight at the California State Prison -- 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 started when another inmate tried, without permission, to join a group of about 20 Muslim inmates praying in the prison yard. "It wasn't his time to be out on the yard," Deputy District Attorney Guy Shirley said. "When the guards tried to remove him, that's when the inmates started attacking the guards." Billy Gray, 25, was sentenced this past week to an additional three years in prison after pleading no contest to battery on a nonconfined person by a prisoner. Six guards were named as victims in the April 14, 2006, brawl brawl n. 1. A noisy quarrel or fight. 2. A loud party. 3. A loud, roaring noise. intr.v. brawled, brawl·ing, brawls 1. To quarrel or fight noisily. 2. . Gray was serving a sentence for burglary and was scheduled to be released this year. "Any time you commit a crime in prison, it's mandatory consecutive to the term you are currently serving," Shirley said. Gray was one of eight inmates originally charged in the brawl. Charges against one of the inmates, Justin Jackson, have since been dismissed because of 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. . The other six inmates have pleaded not guilty and are awaiting trial in Los Angeles Superior Court. They are Juan Thornton, 32; Kenneth Watson, 36; Roderick Lipsey, 32; William Rainer, 49; James Hampton, 38; and Paul Roger Jackson Roger C. Jackson (born on January 14, 1942 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian academic and Olympic gold medalist rower. He won the only gold medal for Canada at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Rowing (pairs) with George Hungerford. , 31. Hampton, Lipsey and Rainer are acting as their own attorneys, Shirley said. Shirley said Rainer was the inmate who tried to join the prayer group when it wasn't his assigned time on the yard. Paul Jackson Paul Jackson can refer to:
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