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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Doty grants the police officers' and city's motion for remittur in the mother's wrongful death suit on behalf of her son, but denies their motions for a new trial, to alter or amend judgment while agreeing to stay execution of the judgment pending appeal. The jury's $10,000,000 compensatory damages award is excessive and unsupported by the facts presented at trial. The court did not err, however, in excluding testimony and evidence about the presence of drugs in the son's system and apartment, about his ongoing criminal cases, about a witness's shoplifting convictions and about an officer's subjective opinions and fears and a psychopharmacologist's testimony about the effects a certain drug had on the son. Statements made in closing arguments were also not sufficiently improper to require a new trial, nor are jury instructions on punitive damages or the jury's decision to find one, but not another, officer liable for the death. The stay is unopposed and warranted.