Dallas Judge Reduces $7.3 Billion Award in Murder of 83-Year-Old Charter Spectrum Customer

A judgment of more than $1.14 billion has been entered in a Dallas court for the family of an 83-year-old grandmother who was murdered in her home by a Charter Spectrum cable field technician.

In July, a jury in the court of Dallas County Court at Law Judge Juan Renteria – after less than two hours of deliberation – awarded the family of Betty Thomas a staggering $7 billion in exemplary damages against Charter Communications, whose telecommunication and media services are branded as Spectrum. The previous month, at the end of a three-week trial, the same jury of four women and two men awarded $375 million in actual damages.