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$3 Million Award Not Excessive in Prisoner Beating Death

Loaded on June 15, 2001 published in Prison Legal News June, 2001, page 28
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Attorney Fee Awards, Excessive Force, Civil Procedure, Damages, Evidentiary Ruling, Witnesses, Municipal Liability, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Medical Neglect/Malpractice. Location: Tennessee.
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld a $778,000 verdict and $2.2 million punitive damage award against Shelby County, Tenn. deputy sheriff Rhett Shearin and life prisoner Jerry Ellis in a county jail beating death where Shearin simultaneously opened Ellis' cell door and adjacent prisoner Gerald Gregory's ...

 

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