Two cellmates were heard fighting by the man in the adjacent cell for at least a half-hour, before one of them allegedly strangled the other to death.
DUBLIN — Two men had spent less than a day in their Santa Rita Jail cell together before one of them allegedly strangled the other to death during a fight that the man one cell over claimed lasted for at least a half-hour, according to testimony at a recent preliminary hearing.Crime and Public Safety |Police testimony at the Jan.
The inmate who heard the fighting also admitted he didn’t alert deputies by using an intercom inside his cell. He also shared his belief that deputies were deliberately creating “chaos” by housing people together who they knew wouldn’t get along. Cochran’s lawyer argued the killing was either lawful or imperfect self-defense, and argued prosecutors hadn’t proved a murder. Judge Mark McCannon was unmoved, saying that the basic facts of the case — two men enter a cell together and only one came out alive — was sufficient enough to advance the murder charge past the preliminary hearing.
In 2021, two Alameda County deputies were sentenced to prison for abusing incarcerated men in the jail, including by directing them to fight and throw urine and feces on each other.
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