##Jury awards Ventura $1.8M in defamation case##
A jury has awarded former
Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura $1.8 million in his lawsuit against the
estate of “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle.
The federal jury in St. Paul found Tuesday that the 2012 best-selling book
libeled Ventura in describing a bar fight in California in 2006. Kyle
wrote that he decked a man later identified as Ventura after the man
allegedly said the Navy SEALs "deserve to lose a few."Ventura,
a former governor and professional wrestler, testified the incident
never happened.
Kyle insisted in testimony videotaped before he was
slain last year that it did.Both sides put witnesses on the stand during the two-week trial that backed their version of events.Legal experts said before the trial Ventura had to clear a high legal bar to win.