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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - A judge overturned a $30 million verdict a jury awarded former Alabama assistant coach Ronnie Cottrell in his defamation lawsuit against former recruiting analyst Tom Culpepper, calling the award "severely flawed."
Circuit Judge Steven Wilson ordered a new trial in a one-page order Tuesday that said the judgment was "obviously the result of bias, prejudice and emotions."
Wilson also ruled that Cottrell's attempts to prove that the NCAA had promised to pay Culpepper's legal bills is now moot, because the $30 million verdict no longer stands.
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