Dead Inmate's Family Wins Battle, but Will Feds Pay?

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A federal judge in Oklahoma has ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to pay the family of a deceased federal inmate close to a million dollars in damages.

The judge determined that agents intentionally inflicted emotional distress when they shipped the bruised and bloody body of Kenneth Michael Trentadue to the family while saying little about how he died.

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Dead Inmate's Family Wins Battle, but Will Feds Pay?

For Salt Lake attorney Jesse Trentadue, the ruling issued last week is a victory in his now 13-year legal battle with the federal government to prove that, in a case of mistaken identity, his brother was interrogated and murdered by FBI agents investigating th...

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