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Article: Disorderly Conduct Case Verdict Thrown Out
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- The Washington Post
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- June 19, 1993
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A federal judge threw out yesterday a $201,500 verdict won a day
earlier by a Portsmouth, Va., woman who said D.C. police violated her
constitutional rights when they arrested her on a disorderly conduct
charge in 1990.
U.S. District Judge Henry A. Mentz Jr., a senior judge from New
Orleans who is temporarily assigned to the District, said the jury
made a mistake. Mentz said there was "no sufficient evidentiary basis
for a reasonable jury to have found . . . the alleged constitutional
violations and false arrest and imprisonment."
On Thursday, a six-member jury found that two police officers
acted illegally when they arrested Shirley P. Langevine, a registered
nurse who at the time lived in ...