BART accused of media leak
The family attorney of a man fatally shot by a Northern California transit officer threatened Friday to pull out of a recent wrongful death settlement and alleged the transit agency had breached confidentiality.
Oscar Grant’s attorney, John Burris, accused the Bay Area Rapid Transit of leaking details about the settlement talks to a San Francisco Bay area TV station. Last week, Sophina Mesa, the mother of Grant’s 5-year-old daughter, settled for $1.5 million with BART.
Grant, 22, was shot on a BART platform in Oakland last year. A former BART police officer has pleaded not guilty to murder.
-- Associated Press
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