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Lawsuit against Campbell, bailiff settled
TweetBy Jeanne Starmack
Campbell
A woman who was shot during a scuffle with the municipal-court bailiff has settled a lawsuit in federal court.
Angela Trice-Harris had filed her suit in U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio over the March 5, 2010, shooting that put her in the hospital.
She sued the city and bailiff James Cioffi in March this year for $1.5 million.
The amount of the settlement, reached at a conference last week, is undisclosed.
Law Director Mark Kolmacic said the city’s insurance company and Trice-Harris have a confidentiality agreement. He said the city is taking the position that it is the insurance company’s money.
Atty. D. John Travis, who represented the city and Cioffi for the insurance company, said Wednesday he will not reveal the amount.
“It’s a confidential settlement by virtue of the agreement in federal court,” he said.
Trice-Harris, 30, was shot while sitting in her car in front of the municipal building on Tenney Avenue. The court is in that building. She had run from the court, police reports said, as she was about to be arrested on a probation violation.
Cioffi chased her out to the car. After she got in, he drew his weapon, a .40-caliber Glock handgun.
Police said he ordered her out of the car, and she refused. Cioffi contended Trice-Harris reached for the gun, grabbed it and pulled it toward her, and it discharged.
In her suit, Trice-Harris told a different version of the events that led to the shooting.
She said she was given permission to leave the courtroom to have a cigarette. She said she was sitting in the car with the door open when Cioffi approached, yelling at her to return to the courtroom.
She said she needed to adjust her prosthetic leg to stand up, then he reached for her, brandishing the gun, and shot her.
Trice-Harris spent four days at St. Elizabeth Health Center.
Comments
Good job James Cioffi!
Glad to see somebody is not taking Mizz Angela Trice-Harris-Smith-Jones-Clevon-Devon-Moncrief-Grizzle's crap anymore....subculture beware, run from this type of law enforcer and get what you really deserve! Cudos.
MORAL: Don't reach for a cop's gun, ever!
"She said she needed to adjust her prosthetic leg to stand up, then he reached for her, brandishing the gun, and shot her."
Bailiff James Cioffi aka BARNEY FIFE should have been fired . With limited physical resources he would do much better flipping burgers at McDonalds . Angela Trice-Harris and her attorney now have the big bucks .
Yeah stan,& I'll bet you believe her when she say's the judge let her leave court to go outside & smoke. When did they start letting probation violator's just leave the courtroom to go outside & smoke? I think after 8,861 comment's,you just like to see your name in light's,which by the way,they're aren't any here. It's a good thing I wasn't the baliff. Anyway,Good Job Mr.Coiffi!!!
Violation of probation and/or flight from court do not justify the use of deadly force. The bailiff was undoubtedly angry because she was not compliant but that does not justify lethal force. He should be disarmed and fired before he kills someone for talking in court or spitting on him. Was she going to flee to Switzerland or just the south side? She would have been picked up in a short time. They always are.
Yeah michael1757, it truly is a sad day when Barney Fife can't run down and cuff a one legged scrawney woman without shooting her . ..
Anyway, Angela Trice-Harris sez, "Good job Mr.Cioffi and thanks for the money "!
"In her suit, Trice-Harris told a different version of the events that led to the shooting."
This useless DNA is laughing all the way to the bank. She is a pitiful excuse of a human being. Her and Willie must be good friends to pull this off.
It amazes me how much the criminals get away with this days. Truly amazing. SMH