GUARDS ACCUSED OF SETTING UP PRISONER'S RAPE

Four guards a Corcoran State Prison went on trial Monday for allegedly
setting up a prison rape to punish an inmate.

The alleged incident took place at the same prison where eight other
officers are accused of setting up gladiator-style battles among
inmates for the guards' entertainment. They will be tried later.

The guards are accused of putting Eddie Dillard, a 118-pound
first-time offender, in the cell of Wayne Jerome Robertson, a
6-foot-3, 230-pound sexual predator, to punish Dillard for kicking a
female guard.

Robertson, a lifer, admitted to a grand jury that he sodomized Dillard
and threatened to kill him if he put up a fight during the three days
in 1993 when guards left the smaller man in the cell.