Orlando Jury Rules Against Cop in Taser Case

In what is thought to be the first Taser lawsuit against a cop, a fedral civil jury found in favor of the plaintiff and awarded him $100,000 in punitive damages.  The case stemmed from a June 2003 traffic incident during which Dontray Chaney was pulled out of his car and forcibly thrown to the ground for having an obscured license plate.  Originally, he was charged with resisting arrest without violence.  The taser came into play after Chaney had been thrown to the ground.  The officer, Jonathan Cute then tasered him twice for good measure.