A Mississippi jury is awarding $250,000 in damages to a woman jailed 96 days without seeing a judge.
The verdict, including $200,000 in damages against Choctaw County Sheriff Cloyd Halford and $50,000 against the county, was handed down Tuesday after a two-day trial in federal court in Aberdeen.
Jessica Jauch was jailed in 2012 on a drug indictment and eventually cleared after video didn't show her committing any crime. The case highlighted Mississippi's struggles with holding people before trial without access to a lawyer or bail. The jury only determined how much Jauch was owed, after a judge earlier found the county and Halford liable.
U.S District Judge Sharion Aycock originally dismissed Jauch's lawsuit. An appeals court reinstated it, calling Jauch's detention "unjust and unfair."
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