A professional tennis umpire who was charged, then cleared of bludgeoning her husband to death with a coffee cup has sued the Los Angeles Police Department for false arrest and malicious prosecution.
The lawyers for Lois Ann Goodman released the federal lawsuit on Friday. Her lawyer declined to make her available for comment on Saturday.
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It contends she suffered humiliation, damage to her career and physical pain from her confinement in jail when first arrested in August 2012.
Goodman was accused of killing her 80-year-old husband by beating him with a coffee cup and using its broken handle to stab him.
She said she was innocent, and her lawyers suggested Alan Goodman died in an accidental fall.
Prosecutors dismissed charges in November saying they had received new information and had insufficient evidence to charge her. Shortly after the charges were dropped, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck announced that detectives would continue to investigate the case.
The announcement came after Goodman’s attorneys said that her DNA was not found on the coffee mug and that she had passed a lie detector test.
In December, the 70-year-old woman told NBC4 that she couldn't wait to resume her previous life as an umpire with the United States Tennis Association.
“It’s a great holiday gift,” Goodman said. “I’m thankful. I get my old life back. I appreciate my life so much more now seeing what I went through.”
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