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Texas: False Arrest and Malicious Prosecution Result in $411,865.18 Recovery
Loaded on April 15, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2014, page 32
A Texas probationer subjected to false arrest and malicious prosecution has been awarded $169,000 in damages plus attorneys’ fees and costs.
Thomas Hannon, 37, unemployed and on probation, had an outstanding arrest warrant for probation revocation. Dallas police knew he was at a local hotel, and on August 1, 2007, ...
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