By City News Service Feb 2, 2021 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, responding to a woman's proposed legal claim alleging her son died in custody in 2019 due to the negligence of deputies, says he actually died at County-USC Medical Center and not in jail. Jacqueline Cothran filed a petition Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, asking to be excused for mistakenly missing the six-month deadline for filing a claim because she was coping with the Oct. 27, 2019, death of her son, Robert Cothran, and because she was worried about the coronavirus spread. According ...