San Diego County Will Pay $6.5 Million to a Man Punched by an Officer and Bitten by a Dog, Ending a Decade of Litigation.

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It has been nearly 12 years since Mickail Myles was seriously injured when a San Diego County Sheriff's deputy, with a troubled history, set a police dog on him at a gas station in Fallbrook. This sparked a decade-long legal saga that exceeded $10 million in damages and attorney's fees before a federal appeals court drastically reduced those costs last year. On Monday, attorneys for the county and Myles notified the federal court in San Diego th…