Three former guards at the Santa Clara County Jail pleaded guilty Tuesday in the 2015 beating death of inmate Michael Tyree, two years after their murder convictions were overturned.
District Attorney Jeff Rosen's office announced that 36-year-old Matthew Farris, 37-year-old Jereh Lubrin and 40-year-old Rafael Rodriguez admitted to voluntary manslaughter for their role in the assault.'Today, there was some justice for the voiceless and the vulnerable,' Rosen said in a statement.According to prosecutors, Tyree was mentally ill and had been housed in the jail for outstanding warrants and misdemeanor offenses as he waited for space at a mental health facility.
Following a change in state law on murder, the guards appealed their convictions, which a judge overturned in 2022.The DA's office had been planning to retry the case ahead of Tuesday's proceedings.Following Tyree's death, federal monitors were brought in to investigate jail operations and the Santa Clara Co. Board of Supervisors convened a blue-ribbon commission on improving custody operations at the jail.
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