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Pennsylvania: ILLEGAL FORCE PAYMENT WILL EXCEED $250,000
Crime Control Digest, Mar 18, 2005

The Attorney General's Office agreed to make one of the largest payments in State Police history to settle an illegal use of force claim against a trooper.

State Police insurance will pay $250,000, the maximum under the policy, and the Attorney General's Office will pay an additional undisclosed sum to the victim's estate.

A coroner's jury and a federal court ruled Trooper Francis J. Murphy III was justified in the 1994 fatal shooting of a volunteer firefighter threatening suicide and armed with a shotgun.

But the victim's attorney learned after the trials State Police withheld a personnel report. The file cited the trooper's troubled history and his colleagues' belief he was unfit for duty.

The case was scheduled for a new trial in April.


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