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New York: $67,000 Jury Award in Rikers Island Prisoner’s Suit
Loaded on April 3, 2017
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2017, page 40
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a $67,000 jury verdict in a civil rights action brought by a former Rikers Island prisoner. It also remanded for further proceedings on a malicious prosecution claim that had been improperly dismissed.
While at the Rikers Island jail complex serving a misdemeanor sentence, ...
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