Shoplifter’s family granted new wrongful death trial
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The family loading a thief, death, while the timid Giant Eagle outside a grocery at the root of a new city was irregular, death trial. 9 Ohio District Court of Appeals today threw a jury trial, favorite of the family of Paul Niskanen, but not at any financial damages against the grocery store. The process in the year 2006, a 6-2 majority found that Niskanen should not be death for stealing $ 289 in food, but he noted that the largest share of the responsibility for his death, fight, as Giant Eagle with two workers. In a 2-1 decision, the appellate court found that Summit County Common Pleas Judge Judy Hunter was ill when she removes punitive damages against Giant Eagle is based on the finding that Niskanen, the jury was partly responsible his own death. A jury was unanimous, the workers were caused by negligence in the 31-year-old man, died. At the same time, a majority that workers in restraint, whereas it. The judges also 6-2 Niskanen of the family for the award of $ 500,000 in damages for pain Akron man suffered before his death in January 2004. It would also 7-1 to the award of another $ 500000 for the loss of the family of Paul Niskanen life. However, the judgement of $ 1 million was denied by Ohio Hunter’s interpretation of the law by the jury vote was 6-2 Niskanen that 60 percent of those responsible for the incident, caused his death. It would also 6-2, that workers acted self-defense, a legal defense, today called irrelevant””in court of the appeal of the decision. ”Honestly, we were not sure that (the trial) has been designed for a million or zero,’’said a juror after the trial period ended. Mary Niskanen Akron continued on behalf of his son. In January 2004, Paul Niskanen a wheelbarrow loaded food and the way in the store parking on Highway 44, Rootstown. How a director and a bagger approached, he took up the bagger with a shock, “said the witness. The two workers, and worked by two passers retain Niskanen, while the police were called. Within minutes, with the four men on top, Niskanen is strangling death of force on his neck and upper body. Portage County Coroner Roger G. Marcial agreed to the death of a murder. A Grand Jury went accuse those who Niskanen restraint. |