"I utilized a diplomatic approach that I have found good success with over the years in situations where a potential defendant wants to settle a case early," Kline & Specter's Shanin Specter, who along with Philip Pasquarello, represented Ishmail Thompson's mother.
December 19, 2023 at 04:50 PM
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The original version of this story was published on The Legal Intelligencer
According to an attorney on the team of lawyers who won a multimillion-dollar settlement in a central Pennsylvania prisoner death case, negotiations hinged on two things: a video, and a tactic.
The video was of the short time period that 29-year-old Ishmail Thompson was shackled in a restraint chair in Dauphin County Prison before he was found unresponsive, and the tactic involved giving the defendants a take-it-or-leave-it demand.
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