More than five and a half years after a jury awarded $12.2 million to a pedestrian injured after he was hit by an alleged drunken driver, the state Supreme Court has sided with the Connecticut Appellate Court in reversing the award.

Soon after the jurors returned the verdict to Thomas Ventura in his lawsuit against the town of East Haven, the judge in the case cut the award to $6.2 million. That is where it stood until Jan. 17, when the state’s high court ruled 5-0 that there was clear evidence of governmental immunity shielding local police from liability in the incident. The high court’s ruling means Ventura will get nothing.

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