| Jury awards city accident victim $1.1M |
Wed., June 13, 2007
|
In what's believed to be the largest civil judgment of its kind in Pasquotank County, a jury has awarded $1.1 million to a 65-year-old Elizabeth City man who suffered disabling injuries in a motor vehicle accident two years ago.
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| Law firm's new
name reflects partnership |
Sunday, June 18,
2006 |
The law firm of
D. Keith Teague P.A. is now known as Teague and Glover P.A. Teague will
continue to work in the courtroom on criminal defense, DWI and traffic
cases. Glover will continue to handle the serious bodily injury and
accidental death cases, as well as civil litigation and appeals to the
North Carolina Court of Appeals and N.C. Supreme Court.
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| Court of Appeals Upholds
Family's Win Against DOT in Defective Highway / Wrongful Death
Claim – Case Featured on Front Page of North Carolina Lawyer's
Weekly |
September 19, 2005 |
The North
Carolina Court of Appeals upheld a $500,000 tort claims award to the
family of a Camden County motorist who slid into a bridge after hitting
a "pond" of standing rainwater only six days after another fatal wreck
at the same location. According to the opinion, the decedent, Larry
Walker, was traveling south on state Highway 343 in Camden County when
his Ford Ranger lost traction on a wet road and struck a concrete bridge
piling 88 feet away. Walker died of his injuries. Danny Glover, Jr.
represented the family.
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| Green Found
"Not Guilty" of Attempted First Degree Murder |
September 30, 2004 |
A jury in Perquimans County Superior returned a verdict of not guilty in the first attempted murder trial of James Green on Wednesday.
Green, 61, is an Albemarle Plantation resident and retired New York state police officer, was
accused of shooting his estranged wife, Cynthia Green, and her friend, Jack Waggoner on Jan. 4 at Waggoner's Holiday
Island residence. The jury took an hour and 45
minutes to decide on the verdict on the verdict.
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| Jurors Find Hall "Not Guilty" of
Murder |
August 28, 2004 |
Randall Hall left Courtroom A of the Pasquotank County Courthouse for the last time Friday after a jury of 10 women and two men found him not guilty of murder in the May 31, 2002 shooting death of his brother Junius Hall.
Hall clasped his hands and looked toward the ceiling when the verdict was read.
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| Thrasher Cleared of Murder in Fatal Beach Crash |
April 18, 2003 |
A Carova man was cleared Thursday of all charges stemming from a fatal crash on the Outer Banks.
William "Rusty" Thrasher sat impassively as Judge Richard Parker read down the list of not guilty verdicts a jury returned at 11:40 a.m. Thrasher had been charged with two counts of second degree murder and two counts of assault in connection with the crash, and he could have faced more than 50 years in jail had he been convicted.
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| Farm Tractor Driver Gets $347,500 After Rear-End
Collision |
July 1, 2002 |
Plaintiff, age 66, was driving his farm tractor down the paved shoulder of a five-lane highway. The defendant, age 74, was driving his tractor-trailer in the far right lane and struck the plaintiff's tractor from the rear, breaking the tractor in half and throwing the plaintiff in a ditch.
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| Dump Truck's Failure To Yield Results In
$500,000
Settlement |
July 1, 2001 |
Plaintiff, age 40, was driving on the main road when a construction dump truck exited a construction site, failed to yield and hit plaintiff's vehicle in the side.
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| Court Refuses to Uphold Probation Officer's Firing |
April 2002 |
A state parole officer fired for failing to report criminal charges against a parolee should have kept his job, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.
The parolee, Ivan F. Lovell, shot and killed a Maryland state trooper in October 1995 after he was not held in this state for violating terms of his parole.
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| Estate
Settles with Radiologist for Failure to Diagnose
Cancer |
August, 2000 |
Subsequent testing revealed the existence of two masses in the upper left lobe of her lung. The cancer had metastasized at that point, and was inoperable. Plaintiff then underwent a regimen of experimental chemotherapy which was painful and debilitating. She died several months later.
A retrospective examination of the chest films that were taken in
September of 1995 revealed a small isolated mass measuring approximately 1.5 cm by 3.0 cm. There was no evidence of metastasis on the September 1995 chest film.
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