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DA wants jail time for amputee in assault

Originally published: February 7, 2012 8:56 PM
Updated: February 7, 2012 9:58 PM

Prosecutors in Manhattan want the millionaire amputee who won a $19 million excessive force verdict against Nassau police in 2010 for running over his leg to serve a year in jail for punching a woman, his lawyer said Tuesday.

Thomas Hartmann, 43, who won the record award in Brooklyn federal court over a 2004 incident in which cops ran him down with a cruiser to arrest him, was convicted last...

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