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Families win settlement in liquor store lawsuit involving teens in fatal crash
Written by: Ginger Delgado, 9NEWS Reporter
DENVER - The former owners of a Denver liquor store were ordered Monday to pay
$3 million for selling alcohol to a minor.
9NEWS Reporter Ginger Delgado talks with the mother and father of one of the
victims. 4 p.m. March 1, 2004.
Chris Workman was 18 when he purchased the alcohol. He was later involved in a
car crash that killed two of his friends.
The families of the two teenagers who died in the accident sued the liquor
store. Each family was awarded $1.5 million in damages, but since there is a cap
on how much they can receive, according to state law, they will only get
$220,000.
But the families say this civil suit was not about the money.
The crash happened two and half years ago on South Santa Fe Drive in Littleton.
Workman had been drinking and driving nearly 100 mph when he crashed into a
utility pole, killing his friends Adam Neyer and Nicole Scott. Another teenager,
Adam Deveraux, survived.
The Neyer and Scott families sued the liquor store that sold alcohol to Workman
just before the accident. Both families hope Monday's verdict sends a message.
"Liquor stores need to be held accountable," said Adam Neyer's father, Steven
Neyer. "They have high profit margins and they need to be held accountable and
if this makes one liquor store decide to tighten up and do the right thing, then
we've accomplished what we wanted to accomplish."
"If we change it for one family, that's what's important to me. I just don't
want it to happen to anyone ever again," said Amy Johnson, Adam Neyer's mother.
The alcohol was purchased at what used to be the Warehouse Liquor Mart on West
Hampden Avenue. It was the former owners of the store who were sued. The store
now has new owners who have changed the name.
An attorney for Warehouse Liquor Mart said the owners may challenge the award.
Workman was convicted of vehicular homicide and is serving a 14-year sentence.
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lack of training, misconduct and bad manners. Ineptness,
bungling, malpractice and bad ethics can be observed
in court houses all over this country every day ...
these incompetents have a seeming unawareness of
the fundamental ethics of the profession.
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On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 00:35:45 -0700, "=> Vox Populi " <vox@popu.li>
wrote:
Families win settlement in liquor store lawsuit involving teens in fatal crash
The same families who bought cars to their apparently immature kids,
and let them loose on the unsuspecting public.
The same families who failed to raise their children properly.
Good to see, that they get paid for their own mistakes.
What a sick society we live in....
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stanlee_98@yahoo.com wrote:
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 00:35:45 -0700, "=> Vox Populi " <vox@popu.li>
wrote:
The same families who bought cars to their apparently immature kids,
and let them loose on the unsuspecting public.
Yep, it's called proportional liability ... learn it.
The same families who failed to raise their children properly.
Ibid.
Good to see, that they get paid for their own mistakes.
Yep, dead kids.
What a sick society we live in....
With lowlife addicted scum like you allowed to run free ...
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=> Vox Populi wrote:
What a sick society we live in....
With lowlife addicted scum like you allowed to run free ...
And smegma stains like Vox loose. Hey Vox, why don't you reduce your
second hand smoke intake-by inhaling the barrel of a .357.
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Eric wrote:
=> Vox Populi wrote:
What a sick society we live in....
And smegma stains like Vox loose. Hey Vox, why don't you reduce your
second hand smoke intake-by inhaling the barrel of a .357.
Aw lookie here, little pus-nut Eric thinks he has something witty to say ....
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"Naturally, the common people don't want war;
neither in Russia nor in England nor in America,
nor for that matter in Germany.
That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders
of the country who determine the policy and
it is always a simple matter to drag the people
along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist
dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist
dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can
always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked and denounce the
pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing
the country to danger. It works the same way
in any country."
- Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichsmarshall
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=> Vox Populi wrote:
Aw lookie here, little pus-nut Eric thinks he has something witty to say
....
Awww lookie here, it's Vox #@($ stain trying to be witty. Hey, isn't
Vox Populi a synonym for ass pustule?
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