A federal jury has awarded $50,000 to a former Denver jail inmate who was slammed into a courtroom wall by a sheriff's deputy in 2012.

Reno County jurors on Monday convicted 26-year-old Anthony Waller of first-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping in the April 2010 death of 33-year-old Joshua Haines.

DENVER — The attorney for Anthony Waller, the shackled inmate who was seen on surveillance cameras being slammed into a wall by a Denver Sheriff’s deputy during a hearing before a judge in ...