Katrina Nursing Home Owners Acquitted

Katrina Nursing Home Owners Acquitted

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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 7 — The owners of a suburban New Orleans nursing home were found not guilty of negligent homicide Friday in the drowning of 35 of the home’s residents in the only trial to result from deaths in Hurricane Katrina.

The three-week trial of the owners, Salvador Mangano, 67, and his wife, Mabel, 64, recounted the deadliest single episode of the storm that continues to haunt this region, and it was punctuated with tearful testimony from relatives of victims and forceful depictions of government ineptitude by the Manganos’ lawyers.

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I am surprised by this, but I do understand. I imagine the jurors were victims of the levee breaches too and didn't expect it either so they were able to sympathize with the nursing home owners.

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I'm glad for them. How are a pair of sixty-odd yr olds supposed to have lifted all them folk to safety? As for evacuation, I'd have put my trust in the authorities to tell me if and when it was needed. Sounds like they were all victims of the storm.