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Litigation

Jul. 21, 2016

Jury gets case of man who says tasing made him fall from attic window

A case in which the plaintiff alleged that tasing by San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies caused him to fall from an attic window and become a paraplegic went to a federal jury Wednesday after closing arguments in which the defendants' attorney said the tasing occurred after the man hit the ground, not before.

By Renee Flannery
Daily Journal Staff Writer

RIVERSIDE — A case in which the plaintiff alleged that tasing by San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies caused him to fall from an attic window and become a paraplegic went to a federal jury Wednesday after closing arguments in which the defendants' attorney said the tasing occurred after the man hit the ground, not before.

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