By Ben Gutierrez
HawaiiNewsNow
HONOLULU — A former Halawa prison inmate stands to win nearly $1 million after an appeals court upheld his medical malpractice lawsuit against the state.
The state Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a circuit court judge’s award of $983,000 in damages to Gregory Slingluff.
Slingluff was incarcerated on a drug charge at Halawa Correctional Facility in 2003 when he developed a painful infection in his scrotum. That led to a civil trial in 2009, in which Slingluff testified that he was in such pain at the time that he threatened to hang himself if he didn’t get medical attention.
Judge Victoria Marks found that the doctor at Halawa had given him the wrong antibiotic and the wrong dosage.
“The scrotum is described as grossly swollen, the size of a very large grapefruit,” Marks read from her findings in the 2009 trial. “The plaintiff appears pale, appears in severe pain.”
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