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title: Vicki Sarmiento
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# Vicki Sarmiento

Ms. Sarmiento is a graduate of Hastings College of Law. Since 1991, she has been in private practice and handled scores of civil rights cases ranging from unlawful entries, in-custody deaths, sexual abuse of minors in juvenile detention, wrongful convictions, and excessive-force cases. Ms. Sarmiento has been a guest speaker on civil rights at NPAP, CAOC, and has volunteered at a civil rights clinic at U.C. Irvine’s Law School.

### Articles written by this author:

[![Denial of medical care to those in custody](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/media/zoo/images/iStock-951677856-web_2c0d53059d29f47f06d14cf973f1adac.jpg)](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2021-february/denial-of-medical-care-to-those-in-custody "Denial of medical care to those in custody")

## [Denial of medical care to those in custody](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2021-february/denial-of-medical-care-to-those-in-custody "Denial of medical care to those in custody")

Post-arrest and pre-trial claims against individual government officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983

[Vicki Sarmiento](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/sarmiento "Vicki Sarmiento")

[2021 February](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2021-february)