Jury orders blogger to pay $8.4 million to ex-Army colonel she accused of rape

thrway_1000 · 2017-08-14T20:52:26+00:00

William__F0ster · 2017-08-14T22:03:06+00:00

[Blogger Susan] Shannon, 52, said she was devastated by the verdict and fearful for her family’s future. “I feel like I’m a financial slave for the rest of my life” to Riggins, Shannon said. “I told the truth in my article and at trial.”

... after 2½ hours of deliberation, they sided emphatically with Riggins ...

“Everything in that blog post was provably false,” said Stephen Horvath, [Col. David “Wil” ] Riggins’s lawyer, “and could not have happened.” He said no free beer was provided on the West Point campus, that drinking was prohibited by cadets, that Riggins did not have a car in 1986, would not have been allowed to drive it on campus, and that anyone emerging from the pedestrian tunnel couldn’t have been seen from the road. Shannon’s claims that her grades plunged after the event and that she returned her class ring were also untrue, Horvath said.

Title	Jury orders blogger to pay $8.4 million to ex-Army colonel she accused of rape
Author	InstaPiggyBacon
Upvotes	45
Comments	10
Date	August 14, 2017 8:47 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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