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$1,000,000 Award for Crude, Nonconsensual Finger Amputation
On May 22, 2001, a South Carolina jury awarded $1 million to a state prisoner who claimed that after he traumatically severed his ring finger in a slip and fall accident, a prison doctor crudely amputated the residual bone at the prison infirmary without his consent.
On June 22, 1995, ...
On June 22, 1995, ...
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