Standard v. Buckner

REYNOLDS, Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment following a jury verdict rendered in a civil action in favor of the appellee, Karla Buckner. The jury had found that the appellant, Michael Ray Standard, on two separate occasions, had broken into appellee’s home and raped her and awarded appellee compensatory damages of $25,582.50 and punitive damages of $60,000.00.

At the time of the trial of this civil action appellant was serving a sentence in the state correctional facility for a separate rape conviction, and he was accompanied to this trial by a uniformed guard. In addition, the appellant…