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Appeals Court Asked to Review Evidence Rulings in Jail-Search Civil Trial
Summary
Appellant challenged trial-court evidentiary decisions, arguing admission of a probation docket and exclusion of parts of an SIU report prejudiced his civil-rights jury trial alleging excessive force and improper search.
An Appeals Court panel heard an appeal challenging trial-court evidentiary rulings after a civil jury verdict involving an inmate’s claim of excessive force and an improper search at a county jail.
Richard Latimer, counsel for appellant Alexander Thayer, argued the trial judge abused discretion by admitting the district-court docket revoking Thayer’s probation and by excluding portions of a Special Investigations Unit (SIU) report that Latimer said contained defendants’ prior statements the…
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