More on Heston v. City of Salinas.
His parents sued Taser, alleging failure to warn of the dangers of the weapon, and Salinas police officers, claiming excessive force. The jury "exonerated the police because they said the police didn't know repeated exposures could kill someone", Burton said. [LINK]
It's interesting how the liability has been totally flowed down to Taser and it is based on the flawed information coming from them.
Call it The Price of Propaganda.
In some of my previous posts, I have stated that the root cause of some of these incidents seems to be the (missing or mis-) information coming from Taser. It's nice to see that the legal system is moving to the same opinion.
You can bet that Taser will be named on every taser-associated lawsuit from now on. A precedent such as this can certainly result in a legal pile-on.
And to put things into perspective, this one judgment is worth about 1% of the total market capitalization for Taser. Just one judgment. 1% might sound small - but would you want to have 1% of your body mass sliced-off, with or without anesthetic?
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