Jury selection gets underway later this month in a wrongful death trial in which the family of a 41-year-old Fresno man says he died after city police and county deputies restrained him face down on the ground.
Alleging wrongful death, gross negligence and constitutional violations, the family of Joseph Perez is seeking unspecified damages from the city and county of Fresno and the parent corporation of the ambulance company that responded to the scene in 2017.
In a statement to Fresnoland, Perez family attorney Neil Gehlawat called it a “very tragic case” and noted that the coroner concluded Perez’s death was a homicide due to “compressive asphyxia.”…