$500,000 settlement accepted in Central Booking beating death

Published May 7, 2008 4:00am ET



The state Attorney General?s Office has agreed to pay out $500,000 of state funds to relatives of a man beaten to death by guards at Baltimore City?s Central Booking facility, sources said.

The multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed in Baltimore City Circuit Court was officially closed Friday, after relatives of Raymond Smoot, 51, agreed to the offer in exchange for the family dropping its $130 million wrongful death lawsuit.

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