A woman who sued the Pennsylvania State Police after a trooper assisted with the repossession of her car has been awarded $500,000 in punitive damages by a jury in Johnstown.
Angela Hyman sued Pennsylvania State Police Corporal Bryan Devlin for civil rights violations—specifically her Fourth and 14th Amendment rights to due process and freedom from unreasonable seizures of property—stemming from an October 2016 incident in which Devlin assisted a repo man repossessing her 2014 Toyota Corolla.
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