Feliciano v. McClung

Appellant Kathy Feliciano, the recipient of a large jury verdict rendered against appel-lee James McClung, attempted to gain possession of $50,000 that appellee McClung had placed in a bank certificate of deposit. The lower court found that, because the funds had originated from a workers’ compensation award, Ms. Feliciano could not reach them. Because we find that the investing of the money in a certificate of deposit stripped the money of its protected status, we reverse.

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BACKGROUND

On March 22, 1993, appellee James Garland McClung fired a 410 gauge shotgun into the abdomen of appellant…