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• 0 • VIDEO MON1fORING SERVICES OFAMERICA. LP. 2fIG71.nrr lra,I. Swta 812 ~ moas,rozs p10'951.W DATE TIM STATION LOCATION PROGRAM MnwYwlr . laeingdNS Cile.>p iY7addrdli S..fiauwBa. RD1TiS2D10 Q73/24AIJ71 pA18l81131 Q1966.*4$ /R95R?3361 Bostae G/Nrs WuHrtpbs ,Poui1w Mi/oi Is1A1B6YI21 ¢76s4RASA5 Rm18d47lM (/13178G1Gis p695763541 ONVY 1/11H0/d SIIOIRSC 130R2 d61J157 Qp9,%11589 01250140 Transciipt August 22, 1996 10:00-10:30 PM (ET) WNDY-.TV Indianapolis ' Eyewitness News at 10 Jill Ditmere, co-anchor: The case of "the little guy vs. big tobacco" winds down in the Marion County court tonight. A jury has the case. They started deliberating early this afternoon. Eyewitness news reporter, David MacAnally joins us now live from the City-County Building with an update. David? David MacAnally, reporting; Jill, the jury's still in there well into its seventh hour of deliberation now. In a case that will not just be significant here locally, it's a case the nation is watching. When fifty-six year old Richard Rogers died of lung cancer, he had smoked all his life. His wife Yvonne blamed cigarettes and tobacco companies for making a dangerous and highly addictive product that her husband just couldn't kick. But tobacco companies say, Rogers knew the risk of smoking and could have quit anytime. They've won that same argument in case after case all over the country. Why has it been so tough to beat big tobacco? This Indianapolis lawyer handles wrongful-death cases, but is not on this one. He says juries agree with tobacco companies that people are responsible for their own actions. And if tobacco loses, he says, expect many appeals. Kevin Farrell (Indianapolis Lawyer): When you're trying to take on an entire industry and say every product they make is unreasonably dangerous and exposes it's users to an unreasonable risk of harm, you're taking on a billion-dollar industry; and they're not going to lay down and give you some money for nothing. MacAnally: In a rare verdict this summer, a Florida jury found for the smoker. An Indiana University Law Professor says that could be the start of a trend. nlrtsulsonyfedEyWLas MnFa/ky Sm*u.rnan6bmW/aY'rfeaY/wiilc.nayraama+Nl..4YI~~ rsbm/nNala~~YaY Iwlml•irfile~dJdan. Pva iaCieusmefNMaaoTuawmsry+~dallt'vamtrr.ma+fronNeryrrorsrYMShcr.