Post by Logan on May 6, 2016 3:19:09 GMT -6
Jury returns $2.6B verdict in wrongful-death suit involving Omahan who disappeared from Peru State in 2010
LINCOLN — A jury sent an emphatic message Wednesday when it returned a $2.64 billion verdict against the man questioned in the 2010 disappearance of a 19-year-old Peru State College student.
The family of Tyler Thomas won’t be able to collect, considering the defendant in their wrongful-death lawsuit lacks financial assets and is serving a prison sentence for an unrelated rape conviction. But the verdict still provides the family with a degree of solace, said their attorney, Vince Powers of Lincoln.
“It’s important that the family knows that Tyler’s not forgotten and her life had value,” Powers said.
The six-woman jury in Nemaha County District Court entered the judgment against Joshua Keadle, the former Peru State student who investigators considered a person of interest in Thomas’ disappearance. Although authorities questioned Keadle, he was never charged in the Thomas case.
Read more: www.kearneyhub.com/news/state/jury-returns-b-verdict-in-wrongful-death-suit-involving-omahan/article_8f095c16-125a-11e6-836c-db8e720cf30c.html
LINCOLN — A jury sent an emphatic message Wednesday when it returned a $2.64 billion verdict against the man questioned in the 2010 disappearance of a 19-year-old Peru State College student.
The family of Tyler Thomas won’t be able to collect, considering the defendant in their wrongful-death lawsuit lacks financial assets and is serving a prison sentence for an unrelated rape conviction. But the verdict still provides the family with a degree of solace, said their attorney, Vince Powers of Lincoln.
“It’s important that the family knows that Tyler’s not forgotten and her life had value,” Powers said.
The six-woman jury in Nemaha County District Court entered the judgment against Joshua Keadle, the former Peru State student who investigators considered a person of interest in Thomas’ disappearance. Although authorities questioned Keadle, he was never charged in the Thomas case.
Read more: www.kearneyhub.com/news/state/jury-returns-b-verdict-in-wrongful-death-suit-involving-omahan/article_8f095c16-125a-11e6-836c-db8e720cf30c.html