Judge throws out $85m awarded by jury to family in police beating lawsuit
by Associated Press from US news | The Guardian on (#62PFN)
Award in wrongful death of Lucky Phounsy, beaten by sheriff's deputies in 2015, is out of proportion to the evidence', judge said
A federal judge has thrown out an $85m lawsuit award over the death of a southern California man who was beaten, hogtied and shocked with a stun gun by sheriff's deputies in 2015.
US District Judge Marilyn Huff said on Wednesday that the March award by a federal jury in a civil rights lawsuit brought by the family of Lucky Phounsy against San Diego county could not be supported by the trial evidence, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
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