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Guard and Prisoner Get Damages in Beating Trial
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1995, page 9
A federal district court in New York entered a jury verdict in favor of a state prisoner who was beaten by prison guards, the court also ruled in favor of one of the guards who sued the prisoner out of events arising from the same incident. The ruling in this ...
Filed under:
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Civil Procedure,
Damages,
Evidentiary Ruling,
Employee Litigation.
Location:
New York.
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