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  • Logging protesters win pepper spray case ---- Jury awards $1 each after third trial

    04/29/2005 7:43:10 PM PDT · by kingattax · 28 replies · 2,201+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | April 29, 2005 | Stacy Finz
    After eight years and three trials, a group of protesters whose eyes were swabbed with pepper spray during a series of anti-logging demonstrations finally won their case Thursday against Humboldt County sheriff's deputies and Eureka police -- but were awarded only $1 each in damages. A federal jury deliberated for about 12 hours starting Tuesday before returning its verdict, finding that law enforcement had used excessive force while trying to break up three different protests in the fall of 1997, including one at then-Rep. Frank Riggs' Eureka office and another at the Scotia headquarters of the Pacific Lumber Co. It...