FORT LAUDERDALE (AP) - More than 58,000 Broward County residents whose trees were cut down by the state to fight citrus canker want a new trial on damages.
Homeowner attorney Robert Gilbert said in a motion filed Monday that the May 6 jury award of $11.5 million did not equal full compensation. The motion said state lawyers were allowed to present improper evidence and make arguments that unfairly influenced jurors to award less money.
Gilbert said that amounted to a miscarriage of justice.
More than 133,000 orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit and other trees were cut down in Broward in the battle against canker. The eradication program ended in 2006 when officials decided the disease had been spread too far by hurricane winds.
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