Randeep Mann
A Crittenden County jury on Tuesday ordered a former Russellville doctor to pay $122.5 million for bombing the car of the chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board five years ago, the plaintiffs’ lawyer announced.
Randeep Mann, who had been stripped of some of his drug-prescribing privileges by the Medical Board, was convicted of the crime by a federal court jury in 2010 and sentenced to life in prison. The bomb that exploded on Feb. 4, 2009, gravely injured Dr. Trent Pierce of West Memphis and left him blind in one eye.
Pierce had already been granted a summary judgment by Crittenden County Circuit Judge Pamela B. Honeycutt, who found that Mann’s federal felony conviction entitled Pierce and his wife, Melissa, to recover compensatory and punitive damages. A civil jury, then, awarded $17.5 million in damages for the injuries and $105 million in punitive damages in a trial presided over by Circuit Judge David N. Laser of Jonesboro.
Robert M. Cearley Jr. of Little Rock represented the Pierces in the civil case. In a news release about the jury’s award, Cearley said justice was done “and the jury spoke as the conscience of the community in condemning this senseless act of violence.”
Mann is incarcerated at the high-security federal prison at Terre Haute, Indiana.
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