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$255,000 Jury Award for Man Beaten by IL Jail Guards After Judge Grants Remittitur

by Joe Watson

Donald Martin, Jr., had been awarded $780,000 in compensatory and punitive damages by a federal jury in July 2008 after he’d sued Cook County, Ill., Sheriff Michael Sheahan and the jail guards who had beaten him as a pre-trial detainee in 2006. But U.S. District Judge Harry ...

 

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