FL H6513

City of Lakeland authorized to pay $312,500 to Reginald Jackson to compensate for injuries sustained when Officer Michael Cochran shot him on October 18, 2001

Payment represents the remaining balance of a $412,500 damages award from a February 25, 2009 verdict; the city had previously paid $100,000 on April 23, 2009

Officer Cochran initiated a traffic stop based on an incorrectly entered license plate, then shot Jackson through his vehicle windshield as Jackson sat unarmed in the driver's seat with a 1-year-old child present, striking him in the neck

Combined payments from the city under Florida Statutes section 768.28 and this act constitute sole compensation for all present and future claims related to this incident

Attorney fees, lobbying fees, costs, and similar expenses related to the claim may not exceed 25 percent of the total amount awarded under this act