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Jury Awards $392,000 for Failure to Protect New York Jail Prisoner
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2003, page 25
A federal district court in New York has denied a guard's motion seeking judgment as a matter of law, or for a new trial after a jury awarded a prisoner $392,000 total damages for the guard's failure to protect the prisoner from a serious risk of injury. While incarcerated at ...
Filed under:
Failure to Protect (General),
Civil Procedure,
Damages,
New Trial Motions.
Location:
New York.
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