Sunday, April 22, 2007
Texicans aren't all peckerwoods
Even though there are enough of them to elect people like Our Dear Embattled Leader. This story from CNN shows there are some decent people there.
I had a post about this last year.
A jury awarded $9 million to a black man who suffered permanent brain damage after being beaten and dumped in a field by four men in 2003.Just to clarify one point, he was not simply found in a field the next morning.
Billy Ray Johnson, 46, lives in a nursing home because of the injuries he suffered in the beating. In the criminal case, the men accused of assaulting him were fined and sentenced to probation and jail time, but none served more than 60 days behind bars.
In a four-day civil trial in District Court that ended Friday, jurors found James Cory Hicks and Christopher Colt Amox responsible for Johnson's injuries. Defendants Dallas Chadwick Stone and John Wesley Owens previously reached confidential settlements, attorneys said.
A jury of 11 whites and one black deliberated less than four hours before returning a unanimous verdict, said attorneys for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which brought the lawsuit on behalf of Johnson.
He was found unconscious on a fire ant mound and had suffered a serious concussion and bleeding in the brain.Them are some fine boys there.
I had a post about this last year.
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