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12694792, RE: aight
Posted by vee-lover, Fri Jan-09-15 07:37 PM
>http://parkscrump.com/attorneys/benjamin-crump/
>
>In 2001, the firm represented Zaniyah Hinson, a case discussed
>on the Oprah Winfrey Show where a two year old died after
>being left in a daycare van for four hours in 104 degree
>temperatures.
> ESPN Sports Center broadcast another case the firm handled
>which documented Leeronnie Ogletree, a 39 year old who had
>been sexually molested by the Boston Red Sox Clubhouse manager
>when he was a ball boy from the age of 8 to 17.
> The case of Genie McMeans, a 21 year old Black motorist
>who was shoot in the back in broad daylight by a Florida
>Highway patrol officer on Interstate 10 a week after he
>graduated from college in 2004.
> In January 2006, Crump relentlessly pursued justice on
>behalf of the parents of Martin Lee Anderson, the 14 year- old
>boy who died the day after he was restrained, beaten and
>suffocated at the Panama City, Bay County juvenile boot camp.
>The camp’s security cameras captured the incident on
>videotape. The case was featured on television shows like
>NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s 20/20 and CNN’s Anderson Cooper
>360. “The Boot Camp Case” was resolved for the highest
>amount ever paid by the State for an individual wrongful death
>in Florida.
> In December 2009, he served as lead attorney of a class of
>plaintiffs who were fatally and critically injured when the
>Berkman Plaza Parking Garage collapsed in Jacksonville,
>Florida.
> Also in 2009, he was co-counsel of a class-action case on
>behalf of African-American women who sued the St. Joe Company
>for selling them wetland in Port St. Joe, Florida, which cause
>their houses to fall apart as they sank into the ground
>allowing snakes, lizards, and frogs to come though the walls
>as water pipes cracked. The settlement involved all of the
>Plaintiffs being able to purchase new homes.
> In 2010, Crump achieved a very critical victory as lead
>attorney on what has been characterized as a landmark
>voter’s rights case of this millennium when nine
>African-American women were arrested with guns drawn for voter
>fraud in Madison, Florida.
> In 2012, Crump received worldwide acclaim leading the
>fight for justice as the lead attorney for the family of
>Trayvon Martin, who was killed by a neighborhood watch
>volunteer, George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida while walking
>home with a bag of Skittles and a can of Iced Tea.
> In 2013, Crump helped focus national attention on Kendrick
>Johnson, a 17 year old teenager found dead a rolled up
>wrestling mat in a Valdosta, Georgia high school gym under
>suspicious circumstances. Using his legal prowess, Crump was
>able to get the US Attorney’s office to launch a federal
>investigation after the local sheriff had closed the case.
>