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The Atlanta Journal and Constitution

December 6, 1995

Stabbing victim wins $ 1.2 million judgment

From staff reports

A woman who was stabbed 18 times and left for dead in her apartment was awarded $ 1.2 million by a Fulton County jury Tuesday.

The victim, who was 20 at the time of the attack, sued the owners of the complex where she and her mother were living when she was stabbed April 25, 1993. The jury awarded the woman's mother $ 300,000 in damages. The mother had been assured the apartment and North Hairston Road complex were safe, when in fact the previous occupant left three weeks earlier because she was raped there, said attorney Gilbert Deitch.

Totsy Nichols, an attorney for apartment owners Clover Appreciation Properties I Ltd. and managers Crown Management Corp. and Allstate Management Corp., said they have no plans to appeal. "We're very pleased with the verdict," Nichols said. "The demand (for settlement) was $ 9.5 million on the first day of trial. Obviously the jury told us what they thought the case was worth."