31-01-2019 23:51 via kvoa.com

Lawyers: $6.5 million to settle false arrest claim

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Lawyers say a $6.5 million settlement has been reached with the widow of a former Ohio State football star who says police used excessive force arresting her late husband.
Jim Stillwagon, who died last year, was captain of the school’s 1968 national championship team. He was acquitted in 2013 of criminal charges stemming from a September 2012 road rage incident in Delaware in central Ohio.
Stillwagon’s widow, Effie, alleged in a lawsuit that Delaware polic
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