The League of Iowa Human & Civil Rights Agencies

ALBUQUERQUE - A federal jury has awarded more than $200,000 to an Albuquerque man who claimed police violated his civil rights when they locked him in a police car for hours because he refused to answer their questions. The verdict returned on Friday also will award attorney fees to lawyers who represented Danny Manzanares. The trial was the fourth for the case in U.S. District Court resulting from the allegations against the Albuquerque officer who handcuffed Manzanares during a March 2002 investigation to locate a rape suspect.

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