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Wrongfully Convicted Kentucky Man Wins $590,000 Judgment Against Defense Attorney
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2005, page 31
On June 3, 2004, a Louisville, Kentucky, jury awarded $590,000 to a wrongfully convicted man who spent two years in prison because his defense counsel was negligent.Plaintiff Gary Puckett and his mother Peggy Puckett were at their home on October 23, 1993, when a fire broke out. Gary escaped ...
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