The Savage & Turner Law Firm, run by Brent Savage, just won a landmark legal case.
Savannah State University faces a $10 million judgment after a jury found the college 40% at fault for the rape of the plaintiff, known as Jane Doe in the lawsuit. Torrey Scott was convicted of raping two students and is currently incarcerated. He was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences. The plaintiff in this lawsuit was represented by Jim Durham of Savage, Turner, Durham, Pickney, and Savage; Abda Quillian of Tate Law Group served as co-counsel.
Jury Finds Savannah State University 40% Responsible for Rape
In a short phone interview conducted on October 27, 2017, Mr. Durham explained what some would think as an unusual apportionment of fault against the college:
“The condominium complex for students were [part of] student housing [that] was a separate LLC from the university…in this particular case, they stopped reviewing or monitoring the cameras and they stopped putting a full-time security officer in the area. And after they did that, there was violent crime after violent crime… What we took to the jury was [that] it wasn’t a matter of IF. It was a matter of WHEN.”
