Date: 01-29-2008

Case Style: Rachelle Jackson v. City of Chicago, et al.

Case Number: 03-CV-08289

Judge: Ruben Castillo

Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Cook County

Plaintiff's Attorney: Chris Smith, Jim Baranyk, Phillip Coffey and Jared Samuel Kosoglad, Law Office of Christopher R. Smith, Chicago, Illinois
and
Dan Alexander,
Law Offices of Daniel S. Alexander, Chicago, Illinois

Defendant's Attorney: Stacy Ann Benjamin, Eileen Ellen Rosen,
and
Silvia Mercado Masters, Rock Fusco, LLC, Chicago, Illinois
and
Andrew M. Hale,
Ebone Alexis Liggins,
and
Avi T. Kamionski, Andrew M. Hale & Associates, LLC, Chicago, Illinois

Description: Rachelle Jackson sued Kelly Brogan, Michael O'Donnell and Patrick J McCormack
on a civil rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983 claiming that she was falsely accused of stealing Police Officer Kelly Brogan's star and her partner's gun after an accident in 2002. Jackson claimed that on November 19, 2002 she heard the sound of a car wreck outside her home and when she went to investigate, she found that Officers Brogan in a burning patrol car. She claimed that she rescued Brogan from the burning car and was then falsely arrested and jailed for ten months before being exonerated. She further claimed that she was wrongfully interrogated for fifty hours.

The defenses asserted by defendants are not available.

Outcome: Plaintiff's verdict for $7.9 million including $150,000 for federal false arrest; $250,000 for state false arrest; $500,000 for coercive questioning; $1 million for length of confinement; $2 million for malicious prosecution; and $4 million for intentional inflection of emotional distress.

The verdict in this case was reduced in response to post trial motions by the Court to $1.9 million on January 29, 2009.

Plaintiff's Experts: Unknown

Defendant's Experts: Unknown

Comments: None