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| Judge sides with inmate |
| By The Nashua Telegraph |
| Published: 09/11/2006 |
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CONCORD, NH - Jurors were too stingy with a former Hillsborough County jail inmate who was put in solitary confinement for five months based on an officer's false allegations, a federal judge ruled Friday. U.S. District Court Judge Steven McAuliffe ordered a new trial in the case of Antonio King, one of several former inmates who sued the jail over a 2002 incident in which a guard falsely accused nine inmates of trying to take him hostage. The inmates charged, in lawsuits filed in federal court, that they were beaten and harshly punished because of the accusations. The first inmate to sue, Jason Surprenant, was awarded $20,000 in damages after a trial in U.S. District Court in 2004. The county appealed Surprenant's verdict, but the First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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