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Jurors award $4.65 million in Denver jail abuse death of Marvin Booker
By denverpost.com - Kirk Mitchell and Jesse Paul
Published: 10/15/2014

A federal jury on Tuesday awarded a record $4.65 million to the family of a homeless street preacher who died during a struggle with deputies in Denver's downtown jail while trying to retrieve his shoes.

The verdict came about three months after the city agreed to pay $3.25 million to another former inmate who was choked by a jail deputy and scalded by inmates. And it came one month after a jury awarded nearly $2 million to a family targeted in a mistaken police raid.

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