A federal court jury on Monday awarded $500,000 to the widow of a man shot five times by a Fresno County sheriff's deputy after an alleged May 2008 confrontation in a vineyard west of Malaga.
The jury found that both Fresno County Sheriff's deputy Ernest Serrano and Sergio Rosas Aguilar, who was shot and killed in the incident, were equally negligent -- a 50-50 split. They awarded the money on that charge.
At the same time, they deadlocked on a civil rights violation allegation as well as a battery claim.
