A Clayton County jury delivered a post-apportionment award of $10 million to the family of a man murdered by unknown assailants at a Forest Park apartment complex last year, earning praise from plaintiffs’ attorney Jeff Shiver for putting aside the fact that the dead man’s widow was a Mexican national and spoke no English.
“I’m encouraged that jurors are looking past someone’s last name, the language they speak or the color of their skin to see that all lives have intrinsic value,” said Shiver, whose team included Shiver & Hamilton partner Alan Hamilton and associate Daniel Beer, and Darren Summerville and Mecca Anderson of the Summerville Firm.
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