NEW YORK, CMC – A outstanding Trinidadian-born legal professional has attained the highest place in New York State for using extreme pressure, expressing humility for recognition of the award.
Roger V. Archibald obtained the designation by TopVerdict.com (High Verdict). This on-line journal compiles and publishes annual lists of essentially the most vital monetary recoveries obtained by US-based attorneys and regulation companies on behalf of their purchasers.
High Verdict tabulates the primary jury verdict from all plaintiffs’ jury verdicts in every case sort. In Archibald’s case, it was for extreme pressure.
Archibald’s primary jury verdict targeted on the case of Shuford v. New York Metropolis Division of Corrections and concerned a detainee at Rikers Island Correctional Facility in New York, whom two correction officers viciously beat.
Archibald, the founder and lead litigator at Roger Victor Archibald, PLLC, instructed the Caribbean Media Company (CMC) that “these officers falsified information to report that they had been defending themselves; however, unbeknownst to them, the incident was captured on surveillance tape.”
After that, he stated the officers had been arrested, pleaded responsible to official misconduct, and had been terminated by the Division of Corrections.
The case was tried within the US District Courtroom in Brooklyn, and the jury returned a verdict for US$1.5 million, the primary Verdict for the “Use of Extreme Drive within the State of New York in 2022,” Archibald stated.
“The popularity of this award humbles me, and I’m happy that the jury, on this case, did proper by my consumer,” he stated, including that “at present’s jurors are refined and passionate, and they’re much less prone to deny a detainee honest compensation for accidents sustained whereas in custody.
“In my 30 years of apply, I’ve witnessed the violation of numerous prisoners’ rights and the following apathy of the individuals sworn to serve justice. Sadly, this transgression is much more widespread when a prisoner is an individual of shade. This isn’t how the regulation ought to function; the transgressors have to be held accountable.
“The one entity with the authority to punish prisoners is a Courtroom of Regulation, not their custodians. Detainees are presupposed to be within the care, custody, and management of the state, and nothing offers their caregivers the best to brutalize them.”
Archibald stated he has additionally succeeded in lots of different areas of apply. In 2010, he represented the St. Lucia authorities within the Supreme Courtroom, Kings County (Brooklyn), and negotiated down a US$1.5 million demand to US$475 000 in a breach of contract actual property matter.
Archibald stated he additionally represented the Grenada authorities in 2010 in a dispute involving Grenada’s oil and pure gasoline deposits. He secured an outright dismissal of a US$500 million swimsuit introduced by a Colorado-based oil magnate.
Earlier this month, in a private damage matter in Supreme Courtroom, Kings County, Archibald stated he settled a development accident swimsuit on behalf of a Caribbean development employee for 2 million US {dollars}.
“We take our dedication to the zealous illustration of every consumer personally. Regardless of our consumer’s station, whether or not a unvoiced development employee or the pinnacle of a sovereign nation, we don’t again down till our consumer’s rights are vindicated.”
Archibald migrated to america along with his household and graduated from the Brooklyn Regulation College in 1990. He was admitted as a New York State Bar member the next yr.
In 2006, Archibald stated he took a six-month sabbatical from his apply, enrolled within the Norman Manley Regulation College in Jamaica, and has been admitted to the Jamaican Bar, making him eligible to apply in any Commonwealth Jurisdiction.
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