{"id":1801,"date":"2024-07-16T18:45:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T18:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-awards-880000-against-cook-county-jail-in-inmate-wrongful-death-suit\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T18:45:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T18:45:22","slug":"judge-awards-880000-against-cook-county-jail-in-inmate-wrongful-death-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-awards-880000-against-cook-county-jail-in-inmate-wrongful-death-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Awards $880,000 Against Cook County Jail in Inmate Wrongful-Death Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A federal judge in Illinois approved a wrongful-death settlement for more than $880,000 and motion to approve the distribution of the funds against Cook County, as well as determining how to distribute the award granted to the estate of a man who died by suicide while detained at a jail in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/131vt1ew7DL6ZOIwZ0lrBY0GLObInaksh\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">July 12 opinion<\/a>, U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Young B. Kim for the Northern District of Illinois awarded\u00a0$883,397.22 to the estate of Areon Marion. Kim ordered the distribution of those funds to include: $2,000 to Marion\u2019s younger brother, Dominic Wilson; $2,500 to\u00a0his older brother, Robert Marion; $87,889.72 to his father, Adair Joyner; and $791,007.50 to his mother, Joanna Wilson, who served as the independent administrator of the estate.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Illinois approved a wrongful-death settlement for more than $880,000 and motion to approve the distribution of the funds against Cook County, as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2052,2524,2156,2525,1572,423,339,501],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-awards","tag-cook","tag-county","tag-inmate","tag-jail","tag-judge","tag-suit","tag-wrongfuldeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}