6 Inmates Accept County Offer in Civil Rights Suit

Six black inmates who claimed they were brutalized by sheriff’s deputies in racially motivated attacks at the Hall of Justice jail accepted an offer by the county Tuesday to settle a civil rights suit.

At the county’s request, attorneys would not disclose the amount of the settlement, reached just before trial was to begin in a case triggered by fracases in the Los Angeles Hall of Justice.

One of the plaintiffs, Sammy E. Carlyle, was left wheelchair-bound as a result of injuries he sustained in one incident. Richard Eiden, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said only that the offer was adequate.