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Detainee Awarded $64,000 in Guard Attack

Loaded on Sept. 15, 1997 published in Prison Legal News September, 1997, page 16
Filed under: Attorney Fee Awards, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Restraints, Civil Procedure, Damages, Evidentiary Ruling, Costs, New Trial Motions. Location: Iowa.
A federal district court in Iowa denied jail guards' motion for a new trial on a detainee's jury verdict awarding $64,000 in an excessive force suit. Jeffrey Schultz was arrested and booked into the Woodbury county jail. During the booking Schultz was shackled, placed in a headlock, attacked and dropped ...

 

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