Schwab was elected Kansas secretary of state in November.Ĭaleb's family received nearly $20million in settlements. Lawyers also argued the grand jury shouldn't have heard testimony about another death at a Schlitterbahn park in Texas because it's not relevant to what happened here.Ĭaleb and his father, Scott Schwab, were at the park for a special day for state lawmakers. The legislature toughened state law involving inspections and requirements after the boy died. The state argued that it was up to the jury to determine what was true and said the Travel Channel video should be presented at trial.ĭefendants also claimed jurors repeatedly were told that the waterslide was not built to standards established by ASTM International, which might have led jurors to conclude the water park was breaking the law.īut Kansas law didn't require the Verruckt meet those standards at the time of Caleb's death. The evidence included video from a Travel Channel show documenting construction of the Verruckt, in which Henry and others emphasized the risks to riders on a raft dropping 17 stories before climbing a second, 50-foot hump.ĭefense attorneys argued that the video didn't show how the ride actually worked, but the attorney general's office never told the jury it was a dramatization, though it showed boats flying up in a similar manner to how Caleb died.
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