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Patricia Meyers Receives a Defense Verdict
February 2, 2009
Patricia Meyers received defense verdict.
Ms. Meyers represented Defendant and obtained a jury verdict on behalf of Defendant. In this matter, Plaintiff alleged that Defendant gratuitously assualted him on February 15, 2005. Defendant claimed that on February 4, 2005, Plaintiff, who is a neighbor, drove slowly by his home and took pictures or videotaped Defendant's eleven-year old daughter while she was playing outside. Plaintiff denied photographing or videotaping the child, although he was known in the neighborhood for that behavior. One of the neighbors testified that Plaintiff had previously videotaped her children and that as a result of Plaintiff's conduct she and Defendant had instructed their children to keep an eye out for each other as they passed Plaintiff's home and to tell them if Plaintiff tried to photograph them or approach them.
An eyewitness to the assualt said her attention was drawn to a disturbance where she saw two men shoving each other. Defendant admitted that after Plaintiff took a swing at him that he "let him have it." After the judge instructed on self defense and the jury deliberated for nearly two hours, the jury found in favor of Defendant.
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