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Taser Jolted For $6 Million In Damages.

Т  Salinas (CA) - Taser International received its first major court loss today after a federal jury found it partially responsible for the death of a Salinas California man. The jury believed the company should have been more responsible in warning users about the dangers of the device and gave $1 million in compensatory and $5.2 million in punitive damages to the family of 40-year-old Robert Heston Jr. Heston died on February 20th 2005 after he was shocked with the Taser during a scuffle with the Salinas Police Department. The jury exonerated all the police officers and found Heston to be 85% at fault because he was on methamphetamines and had an enlarged heart due to habitual drug use. This puts the actual damages against Taser at approximately $920,000. The Salinas Police Chief Daniel Ortega has said that his department will still use Tasers, but that he plans on buying тЂ™Taser CamsтЂ™ which will record the arrests. Monterey Herald.

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