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Brian Hundley. Brian, 41, a dentist, was unarmed when he was ordered out of his car, and then shot and killed, by D.C. Police Officer Marcus Gaines in March 2002. A federal jury found the officer negligent and ordered D.C. to pay damages to Brian's loved ones. Gaines said Brian got out of the car and put his hands on the side of the vehicle, as ordered. But then, according to Gaines, Brian jerkily put one hand behind his back and lunged. In their verdict, after an eight-day trial and four days of deliberations, jurors did not accept that. The verdict: the officer lied.
Judge Kavanaugh threw out the jury's verdict, in one of his earliest opinions as a judge.He took the officer's side of the story, even though the jury expressly rejected it. Kavanaugh wrote that "it was Hundley's intervening intentional misconduct that caused Officer Gaines's intervening shooting, which in turn caused the death of Hundley."
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seems you "forgot" to add was the REASON & how it benefited the family ... " Kavanaugh also remanded the case for a new trial in order to reconsider two complaints for which the original jury had exonerated the officer. This part of the ruling was in favor of the victim and his family." As he felt the officer should be liable.
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