CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Ohio Supreme Court will not consider reinstating a $22 million verdict a jury awarded to a man who was beaten and locked for days in a closet at the East Cleveland Police Department.

The court announced on Wednesday that it does not have jurisdiction to take up Arnold Black’s challenge to an Eighth District Court of Appeals' ruling that tossed the verdict and sent the case back to Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court for a new trial.

Black’s case was featured in the sixth episode of Serial’s third season.

Black sued the department after his 2012 arrest after a traffic stop. He claimed that Sgt. Randy Hicks, then a detective, punched him in the face and locked him in a storage room that the department used as a holding cell

Black said he spent several days locked in the room with no toilet, forcing him to urinate in a locker.

On his second day in the closet, an officer allowed Black to use his cellphone to call his girlfriend, Black said. But when the girlfriend came to the police department and asked to see him, she was told Black was “under investigation” and “you can’t see people that are under investigation," the lawsuit said.

He wasn’t booked into the Cuyahoga County Jail until five days later.

Prosecutors dropped the drug charges against Black a month later.

In the run up to the civil trial, East Cleveland’s law department did not respond to any requests from Black’s lawyers for evidence it planned to present to jurors in the city’s defense, court records show. A judge ruled that the move violated the rules of discovery and barred East Cleveland from presenting any evidence at trial.

Hicks, who resigned from the department after the incident came to light, was the only person from East Cleveland to testify, and he testified on behalf of Black. He said that he was following standard practice in the department and corroborated much of the lawsuit’s claims.

The portion of the police dashboard camera video showing Hicks punching Black was missing when the department handed it over to Black in the run-up to trial. The lawsuit claimed that the officers deliberately edited that portion out.

The jury awarded Black $10 million in compensatory damages and $12 million in punitive damages.

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