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Lawsuit Claims Pamela Smart Was Wrongly Placed in Solitary Confinement

A lawsuit claims that Pamela Smart was wrongly put into solitary confinement after a prison guard found a plastic cake knife in her cell. Pame Smart is serving a life sentence in a New York prison for her role in the 1990 murder of her husband, Gregg Smart, in Derry. In a federal lawsuit, Pame Smart alleges that the guard confiscated the knife in 2012, even though she had it for 17 years and it …


Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Over WW II Veteran’s Death

The family of a 95-year-old World War II vet, who died in July 2013 after a Park Forest police officer fired beanbag rounds at him when he threatened police with a knife, has agreed to a settlement of a federal lawsuit against the officer and the village, according to court documents. Sharon Mangerson, stepdaughter of John Wrana Jr., filed the wrongful death complaint in June 2014, seeking $5 …