$12 Million Verdict for Victim of Nightclub Shooting

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Philip Thomas

The Greenwood newspaper is reporting a $12 million verdict Tuesday for the victim of a 2003 nightclub shooting in Itta Bena. According to the report:

A jury awarded $12 million today to a former Mississippi Valley State University basketball player made a paraplegic by a stray bullet at an Itta Bena nightclub in 2003.

Michael Archie, a Greenwood native, was shot at Club Focus on Jan. 26, 2003, after a fight he was not involved in broke out on the dance floor, Archie testified Monday.

As for the component of the verdict:

The jury awarded $12 million in compensatory damages and $1 per defendant in punitive damages.

Unfortunately, the article is short on details. I am assuming that the trial was in Leflore County. I would like to know how much of the verdict was for non-economic damages, since that component of damages is subject to Mississippi’s $1 million cap on non-economic damages.

I will post more details on this verdict if I obtain them.

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