{Lexington, Kentucky}...In a motion filed Friday, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government has asked Fayette Circuit Judge James Ishmael to set aside the verdict and judgment or grant a new trial in the sexual harassment case of jail employee Charlotte Trotter, a corporal at the Fayette County Detention Center. Trotter's attorney, Shane Sidebottom, filed an application in circuit court for $203,418 in attorney fees. Trotter was awarded $60,000 by a circuit court jury in March after the jury found she was sexually harassed on the job in 2009. The verdict was split, with the jury not finding that Trotter was the victim of retaliation and not finding that evidence proved Michael Korb, a major at the jail, touched Trotter's breast without her consent in October 2009. In the motion, Leslie Vose, an attorney for the local government, Korb and former detention center director Ron Bishop, all defendants in the case, said "the verdict and judgment are not supported by the facts and the law, that the verdict is not sustained by sufficient evidence and is otherwise contrary to law, and that errors of law occurred at trial."
