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Court Lovers Damage Award Reduced in NYC Shooting Case
A New York State Supreme Court cut a 150000 damage award to Harrison Coleman by 90000 after a jury awarded him for a 1959 shooting during an escape attempt from custody. Coleman, 28, was hospitalized for nearly a year and lost a kidney following the incident in the Bronx. He had been arrested for purse snatching and later acquitted.
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