More details on Taser's legal loss

Bloomberg has more details.

The compensatory damage verdict will be reduced by the jury's finding that Heston was 85 % responsible for his death, said family attorney John Burton. "That affects the compensatory damages, but not the punitives," he said in an interview. "I think Taser's going to have to rethink its litigation strategy and its warning policies," Burton said. The jury awarded $5 million in punitive damages to Heston's parents and $200,000 in punitives to his estate. [LINK]


Case: Heston v. City of Salinas, C 05-03658 JW, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Jose)

Here is another interesting tidbit from earlier in the trial: [LINK] (.pdf)