Clowers v. Crandduck

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• awarding 20% upward departure where sister suffered nervous breakdown requiring a year of medication, which was exceptionally severe reaction to brother’s death
• departing downward for a mother who had lost contact with her victim son for the sixteen years preceding his death
• awarding 20% upward departure to victim’s sister who “suffered a ‘nervous breakdown’ following Anthony’s death for which she sought medical treatment and was prescribed medication for approximately one year”
• awarding punitive damages equal to 3.44 times the compensatory damages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).