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Old 25th Oct 2004, 13:18
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A good question, Innuendo. In most civil suits, a settlement is reached 'out of court' by the insurance companies, the details of which are not disclosed. I can't recall off the top of my head any civil verdicts being used as evidence in a criminal trial, but I'll poke around.......

On a tangent here, one prominent example is good old OJ Simpson. This 'circus' had so many twists it's not really relevant in my opinion, but it is one example of civil and criminal cases with different outcomes.
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