Jury finds LA detectives negligent in teen death - San Jose Mercury News: "federal jury has found that two Los Angeles police detectives were negligent when they told a gang member he had been identified as a killer by a teenage girl who was later murdered by another member of the gang.
The jury found Friday that detectives Martin Pinner and Juan Rodriguez violated the constitutional rights of the slain girl, 16-year-old Martha Puebla, but found Puebla and her parents were also negligent in her 2003 death and awarded them no money.
U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder awarded them $1 in nominal damages.
Deputy City Attorney Elizabeth Fitzgerald argued Puebla's testimony at a preliminary hearing about the gang affiliation of convicted killer Jose Ledesma led to the retaliation, not the detectives' ruse.
Fitzgerald said Puebla and her parents were offered witness relocation but refused.
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