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| Mother wins suit over son's killing |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/05/2009 |
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ILLINOIS - A judge has ordered an Illinois prison inmate who killed his cellmate — after allegedly warning guards he would harm the man — to pay $13 million to the dead inmate's estate and his mother. U.S. Magistrate Judge Byron Cudmore issued the default judgment in favor of Sherree Daczewitz in her 2006 lawsuit against Corey Fox and prison officials over the 2004 strangling of her son, Joshua Daczewitz. Sherree Daczewitz alleged that the state Department of Corrections and officials at the maximum-security Menard Correctional Center should have known the risk Fox posed to her son but recklessly ignored the threat. The judgment was issued in October. There was no indication how much of it, if any, Fox will be able to pay. Sherree Daczewitz's attorneys did not immediately return calls seeking comment. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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