Attorneys for the family of a Black man fatally shot by a Georgia deputy during an October traffic stop have given formal notice of plans to sue the sheriff’s office in a letter demanding $16 million in restitution.

Attorney Harry M. Daniels of the Law Offices of Harry M. Daniels LLC in Atlanta, GA. Courtesy photo Harry M. Daniels of the Law Offices of Harry M. Daniels LLC in Atlanta. (Courtesy photo)

Civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Harry Daniels told reporters Tuesday that the sum represents $1 million for every year Leonard Cure spent imprisoned in Florida on a wrongful conviction. He was killed just three years after Florida authorities set him free.

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