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Title: Martin Melina v. Sergeant William Chaplin
Author : Supreme Court of Minnesota
Release Date : January 10, 1982
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 62 KB

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KELLEY, Justice. A Hennepin County jury found that on June 12, 1976 appellant William Chaplin, a Minneapolis police officer, had assaulted and battered respondent during the course of and following an arrest of the respondent. Following entry of judgment awarding respondent $2,000 in compensatory damages and $35,000 in punitive damages, the trial court denied appellants' motion for a new trial or, in the alternative, for a remittitur of the punitive damages award. Appellants appeal from that order. We affirm.