District of Columbia v. Coleman

STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

This ease arises from an incident in which an on-duty District of Columbia police detective, passing through Maryland on his way between two points in the District of Columbia, intervened to stop an apparent assault and in the process shot and killed one of the two men involved in the attack on a third man. Both the police detective and the decedent were Maryland residents. After a two-week jury trial, a jury found in favor of the decedent’s estate and against the District on respondeat superior liability for the police detective’s negligence, and awarded $610,000 to…