After more than three hours of deliberation, a unanimous eight-member Philadelphia jury awarded $180,000 in punitive damages and close to $10,000 in compensatory damages against a Philadelphia judge in a claim that before becoming a judge he defrauded a former law client in the settlement of her personal injury claim.
The jury found in favor of plaintiff Denise Jackson for her allegation that Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Willis W. Berry Jr. defrauded her in a simple slip-and-fall case in 1993 by settling her claim in exchange for a North Philadelphia property located next to Berry’s former law office without her knowledge. Jackson also alleged Berry later transferred the property to a corporation in which Berry is the sole shareholder. The property is now worth $180,000, the Law Weekly’s sister publication The Legal Intelligencer previously reported.
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