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$124,000 Awarded in New York Prison Bus Crash
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2004
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2004, page 31
On November 7, 2002, at a bench trial, the New York Court of Claims, Rochester, awarded Evin Lashbrook $124,000. In November 1996, Lashbrook was driving a truck when he was struck from behind by a New York State Department of Correctional Services bus. The impact was so severe it ripped ...
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