The family of a convicted killer is suing New York state for $50 million, saying he is being 'stigmatised' by being called an 'inmate'.
Gerard Domond, 49, says the term implies he was 'mating with other men' in his lawsuit against the state.
The Domond family want the state to stop calling him an 'inmate' as the term hurts his feelings causing him 'mental anguish.'
Speaking to the New York Post, his sister Marie Domond said the term: 'Implies that our brother is locked up for the purpose of mating with other men.'
Mrs Domond, who is acting as the family's lawyer, added: 'The suggestive nature of the word is disgraceful. This cruel psychological programming has weighed heavily on our emotional and psychological well-being.
'It's something that's bothered me for a long time.
'I couldn't understand why no one recognised that somebody being labelled an inmate, why they wouldn't recognise that.
'To me it just sounded very wrong.'
Gerard was convicted in 1987 after killing a man in a Brooklyn drug deal gone wrong.
Currently at upstate Clinton Correctional Facility, he will be eligible for parole in May 2013.
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Prisoner needs remedial English.
Prisoner needs remedial English.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Prisoner needs remedial English.
That guy is more stupid than a load of defective & retarded bricks.
No real lawyer would take that case.
But it would be a fun trial to watch.
"Your honor. My husband has been perpetrated by substantial misconceptions of his nomenclature - resulting in harassing thoughts to his self by others.
We would like fitty million bucks to soften the blow that society has placed upon his character.
He has never inmated wit a man of his own sex and wants to be recognized as such.
May it please the court that I respeckfully offer that he has been damaged beyond human circumference and only fitty million bucks could make him whole again as he has suffered innumerable damages."
No real lawyer would take that case.
But it would be a fun trial to watch.
"Your honor. My husband has been perpetrated by substantial misconceptions of his nomenclature - resulting in harassing thoughts to his self by others.
We would like fitty million bucks to soften the blow that society has placed upon his character.
He has never inmated wit a man of his own sex and wants to be recognized as such.
May it please the court that I respeckfully offer that he has been damaged beyond human circumference and only fitty million bucks could make him whole again as he has suffered innumerable damages."
Re: Prisoner needs remedial English.
"To me it just sounded very wrong."
I think there's something in that statement for all of us.
I think there's something in that statement for all of us.
Bah!
