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DOVER, Del. (Legal Newsline) – The slate is wiped clean for a second Delaware trial after the first included the plaintiff’s lawyer crying and calling the defendants “filth” and a $500,000 punitive damages award – even though only $28 in compensatory damages were issued.
The state Superior Court on Feb. 25 set the stage for a new trial on punitive damages in the case of the late Mark Krieger, whose estate successfully argued AmGuard Insurance Company delayed paying him Workers’ Compensation benefits in bad faith while he was alive.
But the compensation reached in a Kent County Courthouse was only $28 in interest on the delayed payments. Jurors, however, must have been swayed by what the Superior Court called the overzealous representation of Krieger’s estate by lawyer John Spadaro, and handed out a half-million dollars in punitive damages.
UpdatedWed, Feb 24, 2021 at 4:40 pm ET
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Prosecutors say John Leboy in December of 2020 ran from a routine Warwick traffic stop and dropped a loaded handgun on the street. He was sentenced at the Kent County Courthouse on Feb. 23, 2021. (Mary Serreze | Patch)
A man known to Pawtucket police as a member of the Bucket East gang was sentenced to serve four years in state prison after pleading to a firearms charge stemming from a Warwick traffic stop.
John Laboy, 23, appeared in Kent County Superior Court on Tuesday where he pleaded
nolo contendere to a single charge of possessing a firearm while on probation for a previous crime. Under Rhode Island law, individuals convicted of certain violent crimes are prohibited from purchasing or possessing firearms. Superior Court Magistrate John F. McBurney III sentenced Laboy to 10 years at the Adult Correctional Institutions, or ACI, with four years to serve and the balance of the sentence suspended with probation.
By PHILIP MARCELODecember 16, 2020 GMT
A former campaign aide to Democratic Rhode Island House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello has been cleared of criminal charges stemming from the 2016 campaign.
Jeff Britt, 52, was found not guilty Wednesday of felony money laundering as well as a misdemeanor charge of making a prohibited campaign contribution.
The verdict in the bench trial was handed down by Judge Daniel Procaccini in Kent County Superior Court in Warwick.
Procaccini said in his decision that prosecutors had failed to sufficiently prove Britt was guilty of either charge beyond a reasonable doubt. He also criticized the state’s money laundering statute in his remarks in court, calling it “constitutionally deficient.”
Britt, former operative for Speaker Mattiello, found not guilty in high-profile case Published Wed Dec 16 2020 15:56:46 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) by Ian Donnis
Jeff Britt, a well-known Rhode Island political operative, was found not guilty Wednesday of two charges related to outgoing House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello’s 2016 campaign, including a felony count of money laundering.
In a brief hearing in Kent County Superior Court, Judge Daniel Procaccini called Rhode Island’s money-laundering law constitutionally deficient and he said prosecution witnesses lacked credibility.
With Britt appearing via video link from Florida, the judge summarized what he said were his three conclusions in the case.