Posted
5/20/2004 09:54:00 PM
by Douglas
As human beings, we enjoy the ability to explore an avenue to redress our grievances that doesn't involve bonking someone on the head with a hammer. Whereas some people have not found the legal system to be an improvement of this system, still others have seized on the inherent complexity of the courts and exploited them to their own advantage.
Meet Sandra Harden. She's
suing the institution where her baby boy was incarcerated because they designed an inferior facility that enabled him to commit suicide. Pretty tragic, right? Well, I left out the part about her son Maury being incarcerated for the alleged murder of "as many as 20 drug-addicted prostitutes."
Harden's suit also claims her son was held in a cell that architects designed - and builders put together - with blind spots in cells and an air vent that should not have accommodated a hanging.
The suit, in U.S. District Court at St. Louis, seeks $75,000 in burial costs, plus costs of the litigation.
That's just plain sad. I'm sure they'll settle for about $50K.