Mari Newman and Andy McNulty have a long and proven record of winning jail and prison abuse cases.

Mari Newman and co-counsel obtained settlements totaling $7,000,0000 for the family of Emily Rice, a vivacious young woman with a bright future who needlessly died in the Denver jail. Emily was booked into the jail on suspicion of DWI after a car accident from which she sustained life threatening, but treatable, injuries. Emily died because of the deliberate indifference of jail nurse and guards who ignored obvious signs of internal bleeding. Mari Newman and her team worked tirelessly to get justice for Emily’s family, achieving high dollar settlements that included multiple significant changes to policy and training at both the Denver jail and Denver Health to prevent future deaths.

Marvin Booker was a homeless street preacher who was arrested for burning dollar bills as he tried to explain the impact of drug abuse to a woman on the street. Marvin was killed by Denver jail guards who tacked him for trying to retrieve his shoes on the way to his jail cell. Guards inflicted a chokehold, tased him repeatedly, and piled on top of him until he suffocated to death. Mari Newman and co-counsel fought for years alongside Marvin’s family. After a three-week trial against the Denver sheriffs who killed Marvin, Mari Newman and her team won Colorado’s then-largest verdict in a civil rights case for a death at the hands of law enforcement. As a result, Denver paid Marvin’s family $6,000,000.

Michael Marshall was experiencing a mental health episode when Denver jail guards tackled him to the ground. They forced him onto his stomach and squeezed the life out of him. Even when it was clear he was dying, no one provided him with any medical care. Instead, they strapped him into a restraint chair and watched him die. Mari Newman and her team used their experience to settle the case against the city of Denver for $4,850,000 — and meaningful changes to policy and training — before the filing of a lawsuit. Among other significant changes designed to save lives, the settlement mandated that the Denver jails have mental health counselors on-call twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.