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Article: Verdicts & Settlements March 23, 2009: Jury hits drunken driver with $469,000 verdict
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- March 23, 2009
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A Jackson County jury awarded $469,000 to a motorist injured in a
collision with a drunken driver. The verdict included $269,000 in
punitive damages.
In closing arguments, Kansas City plaintiff's counsel Brian T.
Meyers argued "it would be a shame" if the defendant was allowed to
prevail. If the jury sided with a convicted drunken driver, Meyers
argued, the defendant "would be toasting his buddies later that
night at a country club in Mission Hills, telling them how he fooled
those chumps on the jury in Jackson County."
Christopher R. Pickert, a 26-year-old computer software engineer
from Olathe, Kan., was driving a 2005 BMW 530i in South Kansas City
at 11 p.m. Oct. 27, 2007. He had been at ...