Posted on 02/16/2019 8:43:12 PM PST by blueplum
(CNN)A judge has overturned a more than $37 million verdict awarded to the family of a woman killed in an armed standoff with Baltimore County police.
Korryn Gaines, 23, was shot and killed in August 2016 after an hours-long standoff with police in Baltimore County. She was trying to livestream the encounter with police, authorities said at the time.
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Never mind that she was pointing a shotgun at the officers
Not enough facts in this piece
A family member’s value as a loved individual is priceless.
That said, very few people on this earth are worth a ‘lost wages’ estimate of $37 Million Dollars.
That sum seems unrealistic. I’m presuming a jury made that decision, mostly based on empathy and sentiment.
Whoever requested that amount must have known it would eventually be reduced. Take a settlement. This is not the Lottery.
From what I recall the initial reward was a gigantic travesty of justice. A criminal got me n a firefight with police, and then the family was awarded this insane amount of money. Just disgusting.
Had it matched the increasingly clear and sordid circumstances of the recent HOUSTON imbroglio, I’d admonish that every penny of the $32 million was condign.
the judge agreed.
“The opinion also states the non-economic damages awarded to Gaines’ family were “excessive and shocks the conscience.”
What a moron this woman was. Or clearly deranged.
It is for the family survivors.
Its the most money they are ever gonna get out of the human devris scum relative they never cared about until they could cash in on them for the first and last time.
A judge who is correct...
And this surprises you why?
What a piece of sh!t; good riddance.
“infant son’
an infant by medical definition is birth to 1 year. most infants cannot speak words let alone phrases.
I live, work and pay property taxes in Baltimore County. I followed this case closely as I do many police shooting cases. The facts in this case lead to the conclusion that the death of the woman was a classic suicide-by-cop and the deceased’s survivors are entitled to less than thirty seven cents.
Thank you for your succinct comments and analysis. Most stories can be reduced to a few sentences of truth but it takes HOURS of research to get through the smoke of the deceptive media. I remember taking about 3 hours to research that Zimmerman’s shooting of head-bashing dope-infused Martin was completely justifiable self-defense.
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