Michigan jury awards nearly $60M to man who said his rights were violated by prosecutor
Detroit (AP) – A jury earned about $ 60 million on Tuesday. infamous michigan prosecutor And a police officer, ultimately violating sexual abuse accusations in a case rejected by the State Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.
It is very rare that a prosecutor is successfully sued for his actions for his actions due to broad immune guards in law.
The jury, Brian Kolodziej and State Police Lieutenant David Busacca, in charges against Sean Macmaster, “deliberately, deliberately or reality, ignoring the truth” moved.
The jury damaged the $ 33 million lost wage, pain and pain and macmaster’s reputation in addition to the punishing damage of $ 25 million for behaviors with the “evil or reckless ignorance of his rights”.
Macmaster’s lawyer Josh Blanchard said, “The truth appeared, and the jury saw the pain and pain that people with tremendous power were given to their hands.”
In 2019, Kolodziej was a Michigan Attorney General, in which his career had a romantic relationship with a woman in a sexual assault case under his control. He did not deliberately neglect the negligence of the competent duty and delivered the law license. In addition to the wrong relationship, a judge said he changed the documents.
Chief Prosecutor Dana Nessel at that time He said, “He’s horrified” and “disgust.”
The Macmaster case was a separate but relevant topic. Macmaster’s lawyers said that Kolodziej continued sex accusations against him to impress and approach a woman about Macmaster’s ex -wife. Macmaster was in the battle of a controversial child custody.
In 2019, Macmaster was accused of sexual harassing a child in Michigan in 2019, Florida, Duval County, a high -ranking police officer for schools. With the help of Busacca, Kolodziej had previously investigated Oakland County and continued the case, although he could not find any merit.
Macmaster was imprisoned in prison for months before he appointed the case against Nessel’s and his stepfather against his step standards of prosecution.
Detroit Federal courtroom outside the Macmaster, the news of the jury’s decision on the phone on the telephone tears on Tuesday.
“The amount of money and destruction caused by my family – was destructive, Mac said Macmaster referred to the humiliation of the accusation in 2019.
“He gives me a little back, saying that there are no possible reasons to arrest me. He gave me a little back. There was too many lies and everything.”
Kolodziej and Busacca refused to comment on the decision. Kolodziej said that it was a “shameful” to inform the jury members that he had to resign as a state prosecutor six years ago by representing himself during the hearing.
In his opening words, Kolodziej said, “However, this case has nothing to do with the facts that support possible reasons for the arrest warrant and the search order,” he said.
Busacca’s lawyer said that the jury’s actions were supervised by others, and in 2019 there was a road patrol while working with Kolodziej in the midnight shift.
“David Busacca, Brian Kolodziej does not come out here to help Brian Kolodziej get a girlfriend, Aud said Audrey Forbush.
