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The day before Robert O’Connell was paroled, his lawyer and the man he pleaded guilty to shooting signed a deal to quash a civil lawsuit seeking $1.5 million in damages.
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Read More »Woman’s family gets $1 million settlement in shooting
The family of a woman killed in a drug-related shooting will receive $1 million from the property owner for a wrongful death claim.
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Read More »Judge approves $3 million settlement in killing at gas station
A Jackson County, Mo. judge approved a $3 million settlement for the parents of a 21-year-old mentally disabled man killed during a gas station disturbance in 2010.
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Read More »Virginia Tech loses civil suit over 2007 gunman
The parents of two Virginia Tech students killed in a 2007 campus massacre worked for years to prove university officials were negligent for waiting to warn students of a gunman on campus, and a jury has agreed with them.
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Read More »Shooting victim’s family sues school officials
The family of a boy who was shot to death at a Madison County, Ala. middle school in 2010 is suing Madison school officials and others. They say the school officials failed to protect him from a problem student.
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Read More »Family wins $2 million wrongful death civil suit against highway patrol
The family of Joey Pinasco – a 21-year-old shot to death by two California Highway Patrol officers – has won a $2 million civil lawsuit against the department in federal court Sacramento.
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Read More »Gunshot location evidence ruled admissible under Frye
A Missouri trial judge faced with the first-in-the-nation Frye v. U.S. challenge to forensic evidence retrieved from a ShotSpotter gunshot location system has concluded that the evidence is admissible.
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Read More »Wrongful death case settles after ruling
A wrongful death trial has ended with a confidential settlement between a security guard, his employer and the family of a man shot to death during an argument at the San Diego, Calif. Vista Transit Center in September 2009.
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Read More »Gunmaker settles suit for record $600,000
A Worcester, Mass. arms manufacturer has agreed to pay nearly $600,000 to the families of two people shot — one of them fatally — by a pistol stolen from the gun plant and sold twice for drugs.
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Read More »Family of murdered police officer wins $37.5 million verdict
A Madison County jury has awarded $37.5 million in a civil verdict to the family of Daniel Golden. Benito Albarran shot Golden to death in 2005. Golden was a Huntsville police officer.
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