Posted on 05/25/2018 9:43:26 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A Georgia rape victim was awarded $1 billion in what’s believed to be the largest jury verdict ever handed down in an American assault case, according to reports Friday.
“It’s one of the biggest victories for women in the United States,” Chris Stewart, a lawyer for victim Hope Cheston, said at a press conference.
“They said a little black girl in Clayton County who was raped is worth $1 billion. That was a big win for us,” he said, according to the local station 11alive.com.
Cheston was 14 years old and visiting a friend October 2012 when she was attacked by apartment security guard Brandon Lamar Zachary in an Atlanta suburb, according to court documents cited by the station.
A civil jury ruled Tuesday that the security company that hired the guard, Crime Prevention Agency, must fork over the massive payout because it failed to properly monitor their violent worker, who had a history of bad behavior, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“Sexual assault is sexual assault. It’s not right, and it needs to be punished,” Cheston, 20, said after the verdict, according to USA Today.
It’s “life-changing” to know the jury understands her pain, she said.
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why didn’t they make it 1 trillion, haters
They’ll settle for a few million.
Rape is hate.
They will never be able to collect all that. I feel bad for the girl, but 1 billion? Does any company have that much available cash?
The courts are a joke.
But, if only they sued for a trillion, they could settle for a mere few billion.
Its a victory for the girl and her legal team sure. Why is it a “victory for women”? What if there are women who have a finacial interest in the security company...is it a victory for them?
I have long felt that “punitive damages” should be outlawed, for the same reason that ex post facto laws are outlawed.
The courts are a joke.
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Agreed. But this is all on the idiot jurors in this case.
The judgment will be reduced by orders of magnitude, but this is an example of out of control civil suits. Everyone thinks that this is all free money and “someone else” will pay it. The “someone else” is us in the form of liability insurance premiums. Costs will be passed on to customers or the public who must purchase liability coverage. The result of this will probably be the demise of this security company and since their liabilities will probably will exceed their assets, no one will get any money.
Pocket money for your typical rapist.
The judgment will be reduced by orders of magnitude, but this is an example of out of control civil suits. Everyone thinks that this is all free money and “someone else” will pay it. The “someone else” is us in the form of liability insurance premiums. Costs will be passed on to customers or the public who must purchase liability coverage. The result of this will probably be the demise of this security company and since their liabilities will probably will exceed their assets, no one will get any money.
Wonder how many of the jurors would be able to correct spell and write numerically (forget cursive) one-billion dollars?
right.
What I should have said was the jury system is a joke.
Wonder how many of the jurors would be able to correctly spell and write numerically (forget cursive) one-billion dollars?
Maybe the company is from Zimbabwe. $100,000,000,000,000 dollar bills from Zimbabwe are sold on the internet for about $3 US.
From what I read in another thread, the guy is in prison for 20 years and the company went out of business years ago. Who are they going to take all that money from?
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