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  • 21
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    2013
    3:19am, EST

    Jury: Strip club must pay $10.5 million over monster truck death

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    By Ellen Goldberg, NBCDFW.com

    A Dallas jury has awarded the family of a woman who was fatally run over by a monster truck in a strip club's parking lot $10.5 million.

    Eric Crutchfield ran over Kasey McKenzie, 23, in March 2011 as he was leaving the Spearmint Rhino.

    The family filed a civil suit against the club, saying it overserved Crutchfield.

    "Mr. Crutchfield arrived at the club around 10 p.m.," said Michael Schmidt, the attorney for McKenzie's parents. "He was at the club for four hours, and he was served in excess of 10 drinks and shots while he was in the club."

    According to the lawsuit, Crutchfield's blood alcohol content was more than twice the legal limit. He is currently serving a nine-year prison sentence for manslaughter.

    Schmidt showed jurors surveillance video of Crutchfield drinking inside the club that night.

    "We believe that obviously he was intoxicated; it was apparent to the bartender and the club that he was intoxicated, and he got behind the wheel of his monster truck and ran over Kasey McKenzie," Schmidt said.

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    Under what's called the "dram shop" doctrine, restaurants, bars and liquor stores can be held liable if they serve alcohol to customers who are clearly drunk.

    The $10.5 million judgment in the case is said to be the biggest dram shop verdict in Dallas since 1985.

    Schmidt called the verdict closure for McKenzie's family.

    A corporate representative for the Spearmint Rhino said the company had no comment on the ruling.

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    Last I checked people do go to bars to get drunk. If you truely inforced a law that prohibits bars/strip clubs from getting people drunk you would probably have to close most of those places down.

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