Archive for December 2006
Judge awards $8 million in teacher-student rape case; Compensatory and punitive damages also paid to mother
RALEIGH, N.C. – Wake County Superior Court Judge Carl Fox awarded $8 million in damages in a case involving a 31-year-old middle school teacher’s rape of his 13-year-old student. The Judge ordered Stevie Robertson to pay $1.5 million in compensatory damages and $4.5 million in punitive damages to the child, as well as $500,000 in…
Read MoreKieran Shanahan Shines in Both Law and Politics
By Kenneth Davis The environment in which Kieran Shanahan grew up played a pivotal role in shaping his career in the legal field and the political arena. “I grew up in the Washington, DC, area, where many of the adults that I knew were lawyers or politicians or both,” said Shanahan, who’s based in Raleigh,…
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