Duarte v. State

FLÓREZ, Judge.

¶ 1 Appellants Raymond Sidoma and Felix Duarte were assigned to a work detail at an Arizona state prison and were injured when they fell from a scaffolding that prison officials had directed them to climb as part of their work. They sued the state for their injuries, and a jury returned verdicts of $100,000 for Duarte and $10,000 for Sidoma, apportioning eighty-five percent of the fault to appellants and fifteen percent to the state. The trial court entered a judgment finding “that the Defendant State of Arizona is entitled to a setoff against each Plaintiff pursuant to A.R.S. §…