Despite obtaining nearly a half-million-dollar verdict in DeKalb County State Court, attorneys for a woman who claimed she was raped by a stranger in her apartment complex four years ago say they are frustrated that the jury was allowed to apportion fault to a nonparty.
Lawyers for the defendants in the premises liability case—the owner and manager of the apartment complex—are touting the verdict as a win because the jury found their clients to be only 51 percent at fault for the $900,000 in damages sustained by the plaintiff. The defense argued that the woman assumed some risk because she left her door unlocked in a high-crime neighborhood and that the sex may have been consensual.
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