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Settlement near in civil suit over death of Michael Brown
St Louis Dispatch ^ | 6/20/2017

Posted on 06/20/2017 10:17:34 AM PDT by Altura Ct.

The family of Michael Brown, the city of Ferguson, former Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson and former police Officer Darren Wilson are nearing settlement of a lawsuit over Brown’s 2014 fatal shooting by Wilson, the Post-Dispatch has learned.

The settlement has not yet been finalized or approved by a judge.

A person familiar with the settlement negotiations said that a settlement was close, however, and that it would be for less than $3 million.

It’s not clear how much less, but $3 million is the limit of the city’s insurance.

There was a conference call with the judge and lawyers about the case June 8, but the summary of the call has been sealed.

The Brown family lawyers filed a sealed document June 10.

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On Friday, lawyers for the city’s insurance company filed their own motion supporting the Brown family motion to seal documents. In a memo, the city’s lawyers also asked that any “proceedings” connected with the family’s motion be sealed, “including any hearings or conferences.”

Another conference call happened Monday morning, court records show.

Any settlement, once finalized, would have to be made public under Missouri’s open records law.

Anthony Gray, a lawyer for the family, said Friday that the case was still in limbo, but that the parties would “hopefully resolve it.”

“That’s always a goal,” he said later.

Asked why lawyers would try to close the courtroom to the public, Gray said, “There’s more to it than that, but I just can’t comment.”

Lawyers for the Ferguson defendants declined to comment Monday.

(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...


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To: samtheman

That was Treyvon Martin.


61 posted on 06/20/2017 11:53:29 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Altura Ct.

So, how much does Michael Brown’s parents have to pay?


62 posted on 06/20/2017 11:54:05 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fourth estate? Ha! Our media has become the KCOTUS, the Kangaroo Court of the United States.)
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To: puppypusher

Exactly what the heck is going on here? The officer wasn’t even indicted by the Grand Jury that will indict anybody. The big fat ignorant slob was nothing but a thug. He just committed a strong armed robbery and then tried to assault probably kill a police officer and this family is getting money? Nothing but a joke.


63 posted on 06/20/2017 11:55:42 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Altura Ct.

These lowlife scumbags should get a bucket of warm spit as compensation.


64 posted on 06/20/2017 11:59:59 AM PDT by Bayan
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To: DoughtyOne
So how much does Michael Brown’s parents have to pay?

Five bucks a pound ought to put it at about fifteen hundred bucks.

65 posted on 06/20/2017 12:10:47 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Altura Ct.
It seems that the STL Post Dispatch lost this down the memory hole:

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REPORT REGARDING THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE SHOOTING DEATH OF MICHAEL BROWN BY FERGUSON, MISSOURI POLICE OFFICER DARREN WILSON

66 posted on 06/20/2017 12:11:57 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Why would the family receive a settlement? That’s absurd!


67 posted on 06/20/2017 12:33:43 PM PDT by jch10 (Don't go along to get along!)
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To: AlaskaErik

I know. I was generalizing.


68 posted on 06/20/2017 12:35:49 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump++)
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To: Altura Ct.

Attorneys will get approx. 35% of the settlement, Feds will get their taxes and family will squander the rest within a year..........


69 posted on 06/20/2017 12:40:48 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (If a cow ever got the chance, heÂ’d eat you and everyone you ever cared about.)
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To: yoe

Hey, I know. They could call the movie: “Hands Up Don’t Shoot!”


70 posted on 06/20/2017 1:34:28 PM PDT by KyCats
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To: Altura Ct.

3 million is the amount the Missouri dept of corrections would have spent to house Micheal Brown if he hadn’t been shot for trying to murder a cop.


71 posted on 06/20/2017 2:56:47 PM PDT by submarinerswife (Allahu FUBAR)
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To: Altura Ct.

Browns mother and boyfriend will be broke in 2 years. And then they will try to sue Ferguson for something else. They are trash.


72 posted on 06/20/2017 2:57:55 PM PDT by submarinerswife (Allahu FUBAR)
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To: Fightin Whitey

Then make it $10,000 per pound.

That kid cost Ferguson a bundle of money, and then it spread to other towns across the nation.


73 posted on 06/20/2017 3:07:23 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fourth estate? Ha! Our media has become the KCOTUS, the Kangaroo Court of the United States.)
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To: Fantasywriter

Not what I heard. I think maybe he said it later, but the first part is what I remembered. Regardless he still was inciting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLlDzWt7TPc


74 posted on 06/20/2017 3:12:32 PM PDT by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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To: Chipper

You’re right. Somehow I got confused.


75 posted on 06/20/2017 3:33:10 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic wotk using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Altura Ct.

Unreal! SHOULD not be one Red cent.


76 posted on 06/20/2017 3:35:31 PM PDT by Herman Ball (2)
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To: Chipper

Oops; according to this article, we’re both right:

FERGUSON, Mo. – Michael Brown’s stepfather consoled the dead teen’s distraught mother after Monday’s controversial grand jury announcement and then turned to the crowd of demonstrators, saying, “Burn this mother f***er down” and “Burn this b**** down,” according to a New York Times video.

http://fox13now.com/2014/11/25/michael-browns-stepfather-caught-on-camera-in-ferguson-burn-this-b-down/


77 posted on 06/20/2017 3:35:35 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic wotk using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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