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| Subject: Jury Awards $28 Million To Family Of Boy Shot By Insane State Troopers Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:22 pm | |
| PITTSBURGH -- After four days of deliberations, a jury reached a verdict Tuesday in the civil lawsuit against two state troopers.
On Christmas Eve of 2002, 12-year-old Michael Ellerbe was shot and killed as he was running away from a stolen car in Uniontown.
Trooper Sam Nassan claimed he shot Ellerbe after believing Ellerbe shot his partner, Trooper Juan Curry.
The jury ruled that the troopers intentionally shot the boy and "maliciously violated" his Constitutional rights and awarded $28 million to the Ellerbe family.
The ruling included $12 millon from each trooper, plus an additional amount of more than $4 million.
Michael Hickenbottom, the boy's father, was represented by Geoffrey Fieger, a prominent Michigan attorney who has won dozens of multi-million dollar jury awards.
http://www.wpxi.com/news/15563541/detail.html |
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| Subject: Re: Jury Awards $28 Million To Family Of Boy Shot By Insane State Troopers Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:26 pm | |
| - CovOps wrote:
- The ruling included $12 millon from each trooper...
Where do they find that sort of money? |
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