Susan powell trial#
Weeks later, attorneys for the state filed a motion requesting a new trial or a reduction in the damages. Their verdict levied a $98.5 million penalty against the state. The jury ruled unanimously at the conclusion of the trial that the state agency had acted negligently. Witnesses at the trial testified the children were conscious and suffering for roughly 10 to 20 minutes before they actually died as a result of smoke inhalation. Josh Powell had attacked his sons with a hatchet before setting fire to the home. The civil suit accused the department social workers of negligence in their handling of the Powell children, who died during a court-authorized supervised visitation at a home Josh Powell had rented.ĭuring a weekslong trial earlier this year, which also endured a four-month delay due to a shutdown of the court over coronavirus concerns, witnesses testified in detail about the wounds each child had suffered at the hands of their father. 5, 2012, murder-suicide involving their son-in-law, Josh Powell, and their grandchildren, Charlie and Braden Powell. “My conscience is still shocked by the verdict size today, as it was on the day the verdict was delivered,” Pierce County Superior Court Judge Stanley Rumbaugh said.Ĭhuck and Judy Cox had sued the state of Washington’s Department of Social and Health Services in 2013, following the Feb. A judge here on Tuesday slashed by two thirds a nearly $100 million jury verdict handed down to the parents of missing Utah woman Susan Cox Powell at the end of July over the 2012 deaths of Powell’s two children at the hands of their father.
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