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Originally Posted by OneEyedPoker
Yup, they gave his family $1 for funeral expenses and $1 for each child he left behind but then since they believed the cop was only 1% at fault they gave him 1% of $4.
I don't understand how the bolded is remotely possible. I've been through this process in CA (dunno how federal process might differ), where you determine what percent responsibility each party has and what damages should be
without modifying for perceived responsibility. Coming up with emotional damages is extremely hard and they didn't give us ~any guidelines for how to do it, but funeral expenses? lmao that's a concrete thing you have a bill for, there's no excuse for coming up with one dollar. None.
Only thing I can think of is an extremely racist jury.