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Personal Injury & Torts

May 9, 2003

Jury Awards $51 Million in Child's Shooting

SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland jury awarded $50.9 million Wednesday to a teen-age boy left quadriplegic by an accidental shooting in 1994. The jurors reached their verdict a little over two weeks after they found that a gun distributor, manufacturer and the pawn shop that sold the gun shared responsibility for the accident.

By Karen Coleman
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland jury awarded $50.9 million Wednesday to a teen-age boy left quadriplegic by an accidental shooting in 1994.
        The jurors reached their verdict a little over two weeks after they found that a gun distributor, manufacturer and the pawn shop...

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