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$1,500 Awarded in New York Slapping Case
Loaded on June 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2002, page 20
A New York federal district court has held that minor injury incurred from excessive force by a prison guard is actionable, and awarded damages after a bench trial. The court found it was undisputed that while prisoner Larenzo Romaine was housed at New York's Mt. McGregor Correctional Facility, he had ...
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