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$14,950 Awarded in NY Window Frame Suit
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2000, page 7
On September 17, 1999, the New York court of claims awarded the estate of Carmine Tarantino $14,950 for injuries Tarantino suffered at the Attica Correctional Facility when a window frame came loose and struck him on the head. Tarantino died of unrelated causes prior to the damages trial in this …
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